Rising Voices: Underrepresented History (by Walk With Me Savannah Tours)
Walk With Me Savannah Tours presents 'Rising Voices', a Savannah history tour exclusively featuring underrepresented narratives and figures.
Historically too many narratives have been minimized or just left out of society's carefully crafted histories. Take a walking tour where we instead exclusively highlight those underrepresented voices.
We will focus on the lives and accomplishments of black, native, queer, and female residents of Savannah and how they impacted the world around them, in such a way that Savannah as it stands would not exist without each and every one of them.
Tours start in Franklin Square and conclude in Monterey Square.
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Rising Voices: Underrepresented History (by Walk With Me Savannah Tours)
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(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Franklin Square
In Franklin Square we will discuss how Haiti volunteered during the American Revolution, clandestine schools that operated in Savannah that taught literacy to black students while such an education was outlawed, the First African Baptist Church which houses the oldest African Baptist congregation in the country, and its role in the Underground Railroad.
City Market
Passing through City Market, we will see Club One, the home performance venue of Lady Chablis, a Savannah LGBTQ icon. We will also see the building that was home to one of the most active markets for the selling of humans as property, which was immediately converted into a freedman's school after emancipation by some of the very people who were sold as property inside.
Telfair Academy
We will stop in front of Telfair Academy and discuss Mary Telfair, a woman who defied the expectations placed on her by gender roles at the time and began the legacy of preservation in Savannah.
Inclusions
- Fully narrated interactive tour
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Well-behaved pets allowed
- Not recommended for guests who cannot walk or roll for 15 minutes without stopping
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- We meet in Franklin Square (Montgomery St and W St Julien St intersection) in front of the Haitian Monument, 10 min before start time. Your guide will wear a bright orange polo shirt with our logo. If you are running late, give us a call. We will wait for late arrivals for 5 min before beginning.
End Points
- We will conclude in Monterey Square, next to Count Casimir Pulaski's monument.
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Ticket Redemption
Try to arrive 10-15 minutes prior to the start of tour. Your tour guide will be wearing a bright orange polo shirt with our logo on the front and back, and will meet you in front of the Haitian monument in Franklin Square. If you are running late, give us a call. Your guide will wait for late arrivals for 5 minutes before they begin the tour.
