Living Legacy Pilgrimage, POSTPONED
The Jewish Experience in the Civil Rights Movement
This Pilgrimage has been postponed. New Dates will be announced.
From early support of the NAACP and Urban League to involvement in voter registration drives, Mississippi Freedom Summer, sit-ins, protests, and legal-system challenges, Jews played a prominent role in securing the rights of African Americans in the South. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, the Ku Klux Klan murdered two young Jewish men, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, along with local African American activist James Chaney, who were working together to secure voting rights for the people of that state.
In this special eight-day/nine-night interfaith pilgrimage, we’ll visit many of the important sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and Mississippi. We’ll talk with Jewish leaders about the history of Jewish involvement in the fight for civil rights, we’ll meet with veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, and we’ll hear how the struggle continues today.
From early support of the NAACP and Urban League to involvement in voter registration drives, Mississippi Freedom Summer, sit-ins, protests, and legal-system challenges, Jews played a prominent role in securing the rights of African Americans in the South. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, the Ku Klux Klan murdered two young Jewish men, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, along with local African American activist James Chaney, who were working together to secure voting rights for the people of that state.
In this special eight-day/nine-night interfaith pilgrimage, we’ll visit many of the important sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and Mississippi. We’ll talk with Jewish leaders about the history of Jewish involvement in the fight for civil rights, we’ll meet with veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, and we’ll hear how the struggle continues today.
People of all faiths are invited to participate in this special Pilgrimage.
About the Living Legacy Pilgrimage
The Living Legacy Pilgrimage (LLP) offers participants an opportunity to discover the history, courage, and commitment of the struggle for civil rights in this country. This is a spiritual journey, one that invites you to become a pilgrim, examining your commitments as together we carry the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement veterans into today's racially unhealed world. It is an experience you will not forget.
This journey starts and ends in Birmingham, Alabama, where the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four little girls, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. We then travel to Montgomery to the spot where Rosa Parks boarded the bus that changed history, and visit the Equal Justice Initiatives' Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Bryan Stevenson's lynching memorial). We'll visit Marion and Selma, Alabama, the center of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign, and walk over the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.
We'll travel to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where members of the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. We'll visit the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, and then head up the Mississippi Delta to the area where 14-year old Emmett Till was murdered, through Sunflower County, where Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer lived and worked, and then on into Memphis Tennessee, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and where the National Civil Rights Museum now honors his legacy and the legacy of all who fought for civil rights.
This Pilgrimage is a sacred journey, unlike any other. Not only will you visit the historic sites of the Civil Rights Movement, but you will also meet some of the very people who risked their lives to secure everyone's rights. These foot soldiers of this Movement have not stopped working for justice, and they will inspire you with their courage, their resilience, and their persistence throughout all these many years.
More about the Living Legacy Pilgrimage.
This journey starts and ends in Birmingham, Alabama, where the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four little girls, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. We then travel to Montgomery to the spot where Rosa Parks boarded the bus that changed history, and visit the Equal Justice Initiatives' Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Bryan Stevenson's lynching memorial). We'll visit Marion and Selma, Alabama, the center of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign, and walk over the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.
We'll travel to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where members of the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. We'll visit the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, and then head up the Mississippi Delta to the area where 14-year old Emmett Till was murdered, through Sunflower County, where Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer lived and worked, and then on into Memphis Tennessee, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and where the National Civil Rights Museum now honors his legacy and the legacy of all who fought for civil rights.
This Pilgrimage is a sacred journey, unlike any other. Not only will you visit the historic sites of the Civil Rights Movement, but you will also meet some of the very people who risked their lives to secure everyone's rights. These foot soldiers of this Movement have not stopped working for justice, and they will inspire you with their courage, their resilience, and their persistence throughout all these many years.
More about the Living Legacy Pilgrimage.
Registration Rates
Early-bird Registration (through October 15, 2019)
$1,696 (double occupancy rate, per person)
$2,116 (single occupancy rate, per person)
General Registration (October 16-November 15, 2019)
$1,896 (double occupancy rate, per person)
$2,316 (single occupancy rate, per person)
Last day for registration is November 15, 2019. All registrations after this date will be confirmed on an availability basis only. Email us at livinglegacypilgrimage @ gmail.com
What does the fee cover?
The registration fee is quite inclusive, covering
Access to ATMs is limited so please carry enough cash, credit cards, travelers checks, etc, to handle these expenses.
$2,116 (single occupancy rate, per person)
General Registration (October 16-November 15, 2019)
$1,896 (double occupancy rate, per person)
$2,316 (single occupancy rate, per person)
Last day for registration is November 15, 2019. All registrations after this date will be confirmed on an availability basis only. Email us at livinglegacypilgrimage @ gmail.com
What does the fee cover?
The registration fee is quite inclusive, covering
- Lodging
- Meals
- Site admissions
- Honoraria (for guest speakers)
- Bus transportation during the Pilgrimage
- Travel to and from Birmingham, Alabama (or to Birmingham and from Memphis, TN)
- Personal gifts
- Donations
- Suggested tips for the driver ($10 per day)
- Tips for room accommodations ($3-$5 per day), and
- Incidentals during the Pilgrimage.
Access to ATMs is limited so please carry enough cash, credit cards, travelers checks, etc, to handle these expenses.
Financial Assistance
Through the generosity of our donors, a limited number of financial assistance grants are available if you cannot afford to pay the entire fee. Scholarships of up to $1000 (and possibly more) can be awarded by the Financial Aid Committee, based upon information provided in your application. Scholarship award applies to double-occupancy only. If you do not have someone you can room with, one will be assigned to you.
The deadline for receipt of financial aid applications is October 15, 2019. Following notification of scholarships, the balance of fees not covered by the scholarship is due by November 15, 2019.
Please do not register for the Living Legacy Pilgrimage until you are notified that a determination about financial assistance has been made. We hold seats for financial assistance applicants.
The deadline for receipt of financial aid applications is October 15, 2019. Following notification of scholarships, the balance of fees not covered by the scholarship is due by November 15, 2019.
Please do not register for the Living Legacy Pilgrimage until you are notified that a determination about financial assistance has been made. We hold seats for financial assistance applicants.
CANCELLATION POLICY
If you cancel your registration before November 15, 2019, you will receive a full refund minus a $50 administrative fee. Although we will do our best to provide refunds after this date, we can only do so if we can refill your seat.
We recommend that you consider purchasing personal trip cancellation and interruption insurance to cover your airline and other travel costs in case you have to cancel due to illness, weather, or other reason.
We recommend that you consider purchasing personal trip cancellation and interruption insurance to cover your airline and other travel costs in case you have to cancel due to illness, weather, or other reason.
RATE ADJUSTMENTS
We make every effort to keep our rates as low as possible, while offering a comfortable journey for our participants. We make hotel and other reservations early to assure the best possible rates. However, we are dependent on hotel, gasoline, and other fluctuations outside of our control. If those prices increase substantially, we must adjust our rates to take those changes into account.
The Living Legacy Project, Inc. partners with First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond, which serves as its fiscal agency.
The Living Legacy Project, Inc. partners with First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond, which serves as its fiscal agency.
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Some of the amazing people we meet along the way