INTRODUCING SOJOURN PROJECT

"If I Stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question. 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"

About Us

When people help people, change happens.

For over 20 years and through 100+ study trips to the American Deep South and Washington, D.C., Sojourn Project has been immersing people from diverse backgrounds in academic, transformative weeklong moving-classroom Journeys. Along the path and through the lens of the Modern Civil Rights Movement and America’s struggles for liberty. Living history. Learning about sacrifices made and lives taken to achieve the right to vote and equality. Our greatest hope is for people to recognize that they too can stand up to injustice and do extraordinary things.

A California-based nonprofit, Sojourn has been honored by the United States Congress as the longest-running social justice education and outreach program of its kind.

National Recognition.

Sojourn is the proud recipient of the nation’s highest honor for exemplary afterschool programs in the arts and humanities.

We have also received the Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award, Civil Rights and Social Justice Award, and Andrew Goodman Hidden Heroes Award.

Sojourn: . Needed Now. More Than Ever

White supremacists demonstrating in Charlottesville, to a murderous conclusion. Racist and homophobic graffiti on bathroom walls in Danville. Offensive memes targeting women and minorities at Harvard. Hate crimes, prejudice, and bullying against groups and individuals because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, origin, or other differences are soaring.