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Reflections from the October 2019 Living Legacy Pilgrimage

10/31/2019

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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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October 2019 Living Legacy Pilgrimage with Ms. Joanne Bland in front of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama
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Registration is now open for the October 19-26, 2019 Living Legacy Pilgrimage

6/7/2019

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PictureThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice Montgomery, Alabama
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. 

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Registration is open for the Alabama Living Legacy Pilgrimage March 20-24, 2019! Register today!

12/6/2018

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March 20-24, 2019, we'll be traveling to Alabama for a four-day Living Legacy Pilgrimage. We'll gather in Birmingham and visit the historic 16th Street Baptist Church, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's Bethel Baptist Church, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. 

In Montgomery, we'll visit Maya Lin's Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center. We'll see where The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led his congregation and where the Selma to Montgomery March ended at the steps of the Alabama State Capitol building, and where Mrs. Rosa Parks chose to sit on a bus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the most effective boycotts ever instigated. Included in our visit to Montgomery is the newly opened Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, otherwise known as the Lynching Memorial. 

We'll visit Selma, where Bloody Sunday, Turn-around Tuesday, the death of Unitarian Universalist minister James Reeb, and finally the successful Selma to Montgomery March changed the course of history, although not before another Unitarian Universalist, Viola Liuzzo died at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. 

From there, we'll travel to Marion, Alabama, where Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by a state police officer, and the idea for the Selma to Montgomery March was born as mourners considered marching Jimmie Lee's body to the state capitol in Montgomery. 

Don't miss this important Pilgrimage!

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EJI National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama
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