A Conference Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign
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In early 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appealed to people across the United States to join in the struggle for voting rights in Selma. Many Unitarian Universalists answered the call, including President Dana Greeley and members of the UUA Board of Trustees. Fifty years later, March 5-8, 2015, UUs are gathering with others in Alabama, for a significant civic, political, and interfaith celebration.
Read UUA Moderator Jim Key's Call to Return to Selma Thousands of people from around the world will be converging on Selma, Alabama, March 2015, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary Bridge Crossing. Join the Living Legacy Project as we invite Unitarian Universalists to Selma to honor martyrs Jimmie Lee Jackson, and Unitarian Universalists, James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, and to reflect with one another about what their courage and the courage of countless others require of us in 2015. Marching in the Arc of Justice will offer participants the opportunity to engage with Movement veterans, family members of those who were martyred, and historians about the events that changed America 50 years ago and to be inspired by activists and organizers of today who are continuing the struggle. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
William J. Barber, II
The Rev. Dr. William Barber, II is the Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Pres. of the North Carolina NAACP, a national NAACP Board Member, and architect of the Moral Monday Movement in North Carolina. For more information about Rev. Barber, visit www.revwilliambarber.com REGISTRATION
All conference events are full and registration is closed.
For other ways you can participate, visit Selma 2015.
Questions? Email livinglegacypilgrimage@gmail.com Option 1: Friday/Saturday/Sunday, March 6-8, 2015 Two day conference in Birmingham with optional tour of key Birmingham Civil Rights sites Participation in the 50th Anniversary Bridge Crossing in Selma Registration fee: $325 through 12/31/2014; $345 1/1-3/5/2015 (Includes conference, optional Birmingham tour, Saturday evening concert, three lunches, three dinners, and transportation from Birmingham to Selma and return) Option 2: Friday/Saturday Only, March 6-7, 2015 Two day conference in Birmingham with optional tour of key Birmingham Civil Rights sites Registration fee: $220 through 12/31/2014; $240 1/1-3/5/2015 (Includes conference, optional Birmingham tour, Saturday evening concert, two lunches, and two dinners) Pre-Conference Event, Thursday, March 5, 2015 Participants in Options 1 and 2 can register for an optional pre-conference event on Thursday, March 5, 2015: Selma Tour and Mass Meeting Registration fee: $110 (includes tour, dinner, and transportation from Birmingham to Selma and return) Option 3: Sunday Only, March 8, 2015 Participation in the 50th Anniversary Bridge Crossing in Selma Lunch at the City of St. Jude's in Montgomery Join Unitarian Universalists on Sunday for a round-trip bus tour from Birmingham to Montgomery for lunch at the City of St. Jude's, the last stop in the Selma to Montgomery March, then retrace the steps of the march from Montgomery to Selma to join thousands of others for the historic march re-enactment. Registration fee: $120 through 12/31/2014; $140 1/1-3/5/2015 (includes lunch and transportation from Birmingham to Montgomery and Selma and return) ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONWHAT'S NOT INCLUDED WITH REGISTRATION
You will be responsible for lodging, and for transportation from the airport to the conference hotel, Birmingham Sheraton Hotel, and back (an airport shuttle is provided by the hotel). Based on the registration option you choose, all other transportation and meals are included in the registration fee. PAYMENT POLICY Full payment must be received by no later Friday, February 6, 2015. If full payment is not received by that date. the registration will be cancelled and the slot will be offered to the next person on the waiting list. CANCELLATION POLICY To receive a full refund, registrations must be cancelled by no later than Friday, February 6, 2015. After that time, except in the case of family or medical emergency, refunds will be prorated. REGISTRATION TRANSFER POLICY Registrations are not transferable except within the same family unit. If you need to transfer your registration to a family member, please email livinglegacypilgrimage@gmail.com. |
Our Faithify campaign is over and we exceeded our goal! We raised a total of $6300, $1300 over our $5000 goal. Thank you to all those who gave so generously. You can still donate to help people who may need financial assistance to participate, especially youth, young adults, and civil rights movement veterans and their family members, Mail a check to: UUA Southern Region PO Box 560246 Orlando, Florida 32856 Be sure to write Selma Fund in the Memo or include a note. Scroll down to Living Legacy Project
Enter amount in "Re-Visiting Selma Scholarship & Program Fund" box About The Selma to Montgomery MarchThe Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma (more...)
SCHEDULEWHERE TO STAY
A block of rooms has been reserved at a special price of $115 plus tax (for up to a quad room) per night at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel, 2101 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North, Birmingham, AL 35203 Book a room at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel. WHERE TO FLY Re-visiting Selma 2015 will begin and end in Birmingham, Alabama. The best airport to fly into is Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM). |
