Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Shaun King To Accompany Students On "King's Dream" Educational Trip

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/27/01

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS QB SHAUN KING TO ACCOMPANY STUDENTS ON
"KING’S DREAM" EDUCATIONAL TRIP

WHO: Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Shaun King

WHAT: As a finale to "King’s Dream," an education-based program that focuses on teaching middle school students about civil rights, Buccaneers QB Shaun King will accompany 20 students from Academy Prep Center for Education on a five-day tour of the southern United States. The group will travel through the South from April 7 - 11 and will visit Atlanta, Montgomery and Birmingham.

Since October of 2000, Academy Prep students have attended King’s Dream classes, where they have performed various research and writing assignments on topics such as the United States Civil Rights Movement, colonialism, slavery and the Civil War. The students have also learned about civil rights struggles around the world, discussing the Holocaust and the controversies in such areas as Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland.

A committee composed of the Head Master, director of marketing and development and various teachers from Academy Prep, and members of the local chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice, taught the King’s Dream lessons. Students were required to complete their assignments, demonstrate good behavior and maintain their grades in school in order to take the trip with King.

During the trip, students will visit the sites they studied in King’s Dream classes including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historical District, Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Civil Rights Memorial and the Rosa Parks Museum.

WHEN: Friday, April 6 - Wednesday, April 11

SCHEDULE: See attached itinerary

KING’S DREAM TRIP ITINERARY AND MEDIA AVAILABILITY

Friday, April 6

8:25 p.m. Group departs Tampa International Airport on Delta flight #1271

10:00 p.m. Group arrives at Hartsfield International Airport

Saturday, April 7 MONTGOMERY AND SELMA

7:00 a.m. Depart for Montgomery, Alabama via motor coach

9:00 a.m. Arrive in Montgomery; tour Civil Rights Memorial, 400 Washington St.; Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 315 S. Jackson St.; and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy State University, 251 Montgomery St.

12:00 p.m. Depart for Selma, Alabama via motor coach

1:00 p.m. Visit the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge

1:30 p.m. Arrive in Selma; lunch at the historic St. James Hotel, 1200 Water Ave.

2:30 p.m. Tour National Voting Rights Museum, 1012 Water Ave.

4:00 p.m. Return to Atlanta

Sunday, April 8 ATLANTA

7:45 a.m. Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Ave. NE

9:30 a.m. Breakfast with Ebenezer Baptist Church congregation

11:00 a.m. Tour the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historical District including a stop at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, 449 Auburn Ave. NE

12:30 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Visit Morehouse College, 830 Westview Dr. SW

Monday, April 9 ATLANTA

10:00 a.m. Tour the World of Coca-Cola, 55 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr.

12:00 p.m. Lunch at the Varsity, 61 North Ave., downtown

2:15 p.m. Tour CNN Center, 1 CNN Center, Marietta Street at Techwood Dr.

6:00 p.m. Shopping at Underground Atlanta

8:00 p.m. Dinner at Planet Hollywood, 218 Peachtree St., Atlanta

Tuesday, April 10 BIRMINGHAM

9:00 a.m. Arrive in Birmingham, tour Kelly Ingram Park, located between 16^{th and 17th Streets and between 5th and 6th Avenues North;
and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, located at the intersection of 16th St. and 6th
Ave.}

^{11:45 a.m. Lunch}

^{1:30 p.m. Tour Civil Rights Institute, 520 16th St. N.}

^{3:00 p.m. Tour Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, 1631 4th Ave. N.}

^{4:00 p.m. Return to Atlanta}
^{^{Wednesday, April 11}}
6:30 a.m. Depart Hartsfield International Airport for Tampa on Delta flight #1163

7:49 a.m. Arrive in Tampa

MEDIA CONTACT:
^{Jenny Townley}
^{Community Relations Media Manager}
^{Tampa Bay Buccaneers}
^{813-870-2700, ext. 296 or 813-767-9402 (cellular)}