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Just wait until you get to Birmingham!



Just wait until you get to Birmingham!  The Society of American Archivists
annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama August 19-25 will offer attendees an
enticing array of tours.  Here's a sampling of just four of the eight
one-of-a-kind historic and cultural offerings in store:

Bus Boycott to Selma March:  A Civil Rights Tour of Selma and Montgomery,
Alabama
Tuesday, August 20 -- 8:00am-7:00pm
Wednesday, August 21 -- 8:00am-7:00pm
Fee:  $55 (includes lunch)

Montgomery and Selma witnessed many of the most important events of the
modern Civil Rights movement starting with the Bus Boycott and including the
Freedom Riders, and the Selma to Montgomery March. This bus tour will leave
Birmingham to see various Civil Rights sites in Selma and Montgomery,
Alabama. These sites will include the Civil Rights District where the
marches were organized and the Pettus Bridge where "Bloody Sunday" occurred
in Selma and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Martin Luther King was
pastor, the Rosa Parks Museum and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery. A
box lunch will be provided at the Alabama Department of Archives and History
in Montgomery. Participants will also have a chance to tour the Alabama
Department of Archives and History, which is the oldest institution of its
kind in the United States.

Historical and Cultural Ramble in the Alabama Black Belt
Wednesday, August 21 -- 8:30am-6:30pm
Fee:  $50 (includes lunch)

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with unprecedented access, this day-long
ramble on country roads will include a visit to six antebellum plantation
homes, two of which are private residences. Led by Joyce Lamont, former
curator of the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of
Alabama, along with Alexander Sartwell of the Alabama Geological Survey,
this ramble into the true Deep South is not to be missed. Lunch in historic
Demopolis, countless stories, and true Southern Hospitality await. The Black
Belt Prairie was the home of many of Alabama's large cotton plantations. The
soil in this swath of rolling hills is black and sticky and supported acres
and acres of cotton crop until the boll weevils visited in 1915. Much of the
landscape remains unchanged, and will be revealed to you by these two
legendary guides.

Antebellum Alabama
Wednesday, August 21 -- 1:00pm-5:00pm
Fee:  $25

A tour of four Antebellum homes in Jefferson County that illustrate the
different housing and lifestyles of 19th century Alabama from a simple
pioneer farming home to a Greek Revival Mansion. The Arlington House,
constructed in 1822, became a "sprawling Greek Revival Mansion" in the 1840s
and opened as a museum in 1953. The Owen Plantation House, constructed in
the 1830s, has been restored and converted into a museum depicting
plantation life during the early nineteenth century. The two-story Sadler
House, constructed in 1938, is a fine example of a simple style popular
among early planters in Alabama. The McAdory House, constructed in 1841, is
a typical pioneer planter's home of the period. Of archival note, Thomas
McAdory Owen was born in the McAdory House which was built by his maternal
grandfather; Owen later became the founder and first director of the Alabama
Department of Archives and History, the first state archives in the United
States.


A Tour of the Birmingham Civil Rights District
Thursday, August 22 -- 8:00am-10:30am or
Friday, August 23 -- 10:00am-12:30pm
Fee:  $15

The Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham set the stage for many of the
changes America underwent on the long road to equality for all its citizens.
Birmingham's role as a turning point in that movement is still evident in
this city's streets and buildings, particularly in the part of town known as
the Civil Rights District. Events of the 1960's are described on historic
markers that dot the downtown area, while a variety of carefully placed
artwork commissioned by the city evokes the courage of those who chose to
demonstrate for their beliefs. Within a six-block site, visitors are able to
witness a lasting tribute to an important struggle for human and civil
rights in America. The tour of the Civil Rights District would include stops
at the 16th Street Baptist Church, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
Kelly-Ingram Park, the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and the Fourth Avenue
Business District, all within walking distance of one another.

SAA's Birmingham annual meeting promises to be one of our richest programs
ever.  You can view the program sessions on our website at
http://www.archivists.org./conference/birm2002prog.asp and you can register
at http://www.archivists.org./conference/birm2002-regforms.pdf.

We will have the full program mounted on the web site in the next week.
Meanwhile, the programs are at the printer now and will be mailed in just a
couple of weeks.  SAA members, watch your mailboxes!

If you are not a member join SAA now and receive a member discount on your
registration fee:  http://www.archivists.org./membership/index.asp

The staff and I look foward to giving you a warm welcome to Birmingham.



Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL  60607
312-922-0140
fax:  312-347-1452
sfox@archivists.org
www.archivists.org

The mission of the Society of American Archivists is to serve the
educational and informational needs of our members and to provide leadership
to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of the nation's historic
record.

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