{"id":2400,"date":"2021-03-03T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:16:17","slug":"free-historical-walking-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2021\/03\/03\/free-historical-walking-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Historical Walking Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Department of History and the Africana Studies Program are pleased to again partner with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.risecha.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.risecha.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614880732832000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFV7IfJKI0u8oiNSN0bh8fLxhtHzA\">RISE Chattanooga<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chattaction.org\/the-peoples-history-project.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.chattaction.org\/the-peoples-history-project.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614880732833000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF_FCnMIL8PfVqGQlI0tU2FzUMQTQ\">People\u2019s History of Chattanooga Project<\/a>\u00a0this Spring\u00a0to offer four walking tours at no cost to members of the UTC community. Two RISE tours will take place on Saturdays and highlight the rich history and culture of the MLK neighborhood and community. Two People\u2019s History tours will be offered on Wednesday evenings and focus on \u201cWhite Supremacy and Anti-Racist Resistance in Chattanooga.\u201d Descriptions, dates, and other details are provided below, and questions may be addressed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:michelle-dell@utc.edu\">michelle-dell@utc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><u>RISE MLK Walking Tours<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Description:\u00a0\u201cThe MLK community reflects over 100 years of African American history and commerce in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since 1994, the community has been listed on the National Register as an area of great historical significance. Once known as the \u2018Big Nine,\u2019 MLK Boulevard (formerly Ninth Street) is the only remaining cohesive area historically associated with Chattanooga African Americans.\u00a0Join us for a walking tour of the MLK Neighborhood featuring the cultural and music history, historic buildings and public art that makes the neighborhood pop! The tour will last about 1 to 1\u00bd\u00a0hours and will include breaks to talk about points of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dates and Times:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Saturday, March 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:30am<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Saturday, April 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:30am<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Details:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Limited to 20 in-person participants per tour<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Masks and social distancing required<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Meet at Miller Park\u2019s EPB Stage (1000 Market Street)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">RSVP ASAP to Ms. Shelly Dell at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:michelle-dell@utc.edu\">michelle-dell@utc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><u>People\u2019s History of Chattanooga Walking Tours<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Description:\u00a0\u201cThe theme of the People\u2019s History of Chattanooga tour is \u2018White Supremacy and Anti-Racist Resistance in Chattanooga.\u2019 This\u00a01\u00bd to 2-hour\u00a0tour covers topics including antebellum Chattanooga and slavery, the Civil War and abolition, Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, white supremacist reaction, the bus boycott of 1905, the local civil rights movement, the 1971 race riots, the KKK shooting on\u00a0Ninth\u00a0Street, and much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dates and Times:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Wednesday, March 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 5:30pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Wednesday, April 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 5:30pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Details:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Limited to 20 in-person participants per tour<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Masks and social distancing required<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Meet at Miller Plaza\u2019s Waterhouse Pavilion (850 Market Street)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">RSVP ASAP to Ms. Shelly Dell at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:michelle-dell@utc.edu\">michelle-dell@utc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of History and the Africana Studies Program are pleased to again partner with\u00a0RISE Chattanooga\u00a0and the\u00a0People\u2019s History of Chattanooga Project\u00a0this Spring\u00a0to offer four walking tours at no cost to members of the UTC community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2021\/03\/03\/free-historical-walking-tours\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,83250],"tags":[5,35702],"class_list":{"0":"post-2400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africana-studies","8":"category-events","9":"tag-events","10":"tag-why-history-matters","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free Historical Walking Tours - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free Historical Walking Tours - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of History and the Africana Studies Program are pleased to again partner with\u00a0RISE Chattanooga\u00a0and the\u00a0People\u2019s History of Chattanooga Project\u00a0this Spring\u00a0to offer four walking tours at no cost to members of the UTC community.  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