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View Comments EVANSVILLE, Ind.  A new summer program at the University of Evansville will enable students to dig into the history of the civil rights movement firsthand and invite them to ask questions about how it relates to present-day racial justice protests. The Journey to Justice bus tour runs from July 24-31. The group will depart from Evansville with stops in Montgomery, Alabama; Selma, Alabama; Birmingham, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky. Along the way, students will visit historic sites and museums in each city. Many churches are on the itinerary. There s a real connection here to the Black Protestant Christian tradition, said Rob Shelby, UE s chief diversity officer.  A lot of what undergirded the civil rights movement was a strong religious commitment and understanding . We get to go to those churches. We get to go to those museums, to the Edmund Pettis bridge where John Lewis and others were . met with violence but they persiste

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