In partnership with the Black Voice Foundation and the Kenley Konnection Travel Agency, Perfect Works sponsors uplifting history tours designed to educate and inspire.  Now in its 12th year, our Footsteps to Freedom Underground Railroad Study Tour has been continually recognized by the National Parks Service for its social impact and historic integrity. This year we are proud to add Psalms of Freedom: The Ultimate African American Church History and Music Tour to our roster. 

Psalms of Freedom

The Ultimate Africa American Church History and Music Tour

August 14-21, 2010

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Traveling through Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, explore the sites and sounds of the African American religious experience.

Exploring everything from slavery and the spirituals to civil rights and gospel, join internationally-acclaimed historian and author Dr. Daniel E. Walker on a journey that will change your life!!

A Small Sample of the Sites You’ll Visit Include:

The Lorraine Motel/National Civil Rights Museum
Mason Temple Church of God in Christ

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music
The Mississippi Delta

Shack Up Inn

The Hopson Plantation
Lampton Street Church of Christ (Mound Bayou. MS)

Robert Johnson’s Crossroads
Money, MS (Site of the Emmett Till Murder)
Malaco Records
The Home of Medgar Evers
Neshoba County
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
The Edmund Pettus Bridge
16th Street Baptist Church (Site of the bombing that killed four young girls in 1963)

The American Gospel Quartet Convention Headquarters

The Interdenominational Theological Center
The King Center for Non-Violent Social Change
Mount Zion Baptist Church/Albany Civil Rights Institute

Tour Packages:

$925.00 Quadruple Occupancy

$999.00 Triple Occupancy

$1125.00 Double Occupancy

$1495.00 Single Occupancy

Registration Deadline July 13, 2010

Packages include hotels, most meals, tours, and transportation on a luxury motor coach. (Airfare not included).  

Payment plans are available and all major credit cards accepted.

College credit available through the University of California, Riverside Extension.

To Reserve Your Space Contact Kenley Konnection Travel Agency at (866) 456-7425 or go to www.kenleykonnection.com.

E-mail: travel@kenleykonnection.com

Footsteps to Freedom

America's Premiere Underground Railroad Study Tour

June 25-30, 2010 (Youth)

July 12-19, 2010 (Adults)

Retrace the steps taken by enslaved Africans as they struggled for freedom and justice in America. Beginning on plantations and slave markets in Kentucky, come with us as we journey through Ohio, Michigan, and New York on our way to the still flourishing free Black communities in Canada. 

Come stand in the spaces and walk in the places where freedom seekers put their lives on the line in the hopes of making America live up to its creed, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Selected List of Sites to be Visited:

National Underground Railroad Museum (Maysville, KY)

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH)

The Rankin House (Ripley, OH)

The John Parker House (Ripley, OH)

Oberlin College

Wellington, OH

Wilberforce College

First Congregational Church of Detroit

John Freeman Walls Historic Site

Buxton Historic Site and Museum

Underground Railroad Monument (Windsor, ONT)

Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site

Niagara Falls (ONT and NY)

Salem Chapel British Methodist Episcopal Church (St. Catherines, ONT)

Rochester, NY

Prices start at $900.00 quadruple occupancy for the youth trip and $1700.00 double occupancy for the adult trip. Package includes hotels, most meals, tours, and transportation on a luxury motor coach. (Airfare not included). Payment plans are available.

College and continuing education credit available through the University of California, Riverside Extension.

To Reserve Your Space Contact Kenley Konnection Travel Agency at (866) 456-7425 or go to www.kenleykonnection.com.

E-Mail: travel@kenleykonnection.com