We are always pleased when members of one of our Pilgrimages finds a way to express their experiences and is willing to share those expressions. Laura Ingersol accompanied us on our October 2019 Pilgrimage and chronicled her journey through blog posts. We are sharing them here. 

To read them all, scroll to the bottom of this page: Reflections from Laura. Or jump to the places you are most interested in learning about:

• Day 1, Saturday, Birmingham, AL
• Day 2, Sunday, Birmingham, AL
• Day 3, Monday, Birmingham to Montgomery, AL
• Day 4, Tuesday, Montgomery to Selma to Marion, AL
• Day 5, Wednesday, Marion, AL to Meridian, MS
• Day 6, Thursday, Meridian to Philadelphia to Jackson, MS
• Day 7, Friday, Jackson to Money to Ruleville to Glendora, MS, to Memphis, TN
• Day 8, Saturday, Memphis, TN

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This eight-day 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 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. 

From there, 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. ​

​For more information and to register, visit October 2019 Living Legacy Pilgrimage.