Living Legacy Pilgrimage · 2026
The
Alabama
Story
November 9–13, 2026 · Birmingham · Montgomery · Selma
The Voting Rights Act was signed because people marched. This is a five-day journey to the places where that march began — and to understand what it cost.
From Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to the Equal Justice Initiative's memorials in Montgomery, Alabama holds some of the most viscerally powerful civil rights sites in the country. These aren't just history — they're evidence of what ordinary people achieved, and what it demanded of them.
You'll walk across the bridge where Bloody Sunday happened. You'll stand at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice among the names of more than 4,400 victims of racial terror. You'll sit with what you're learning, alongside fellow travelers, guided by LLP staff who have spent years doing this work.
Music has always been the heartbeat of the civil rights struggle. Every LLP pilgrimage includes a dedicated music educator who helps you engage the songs and stories that sustained the movement.
We hear directly from people who carry these histories in their own lives. This pilgrimage includes conversations with community members and movement witnesses — not just exhibits.
Each day includes time to process what you're experiencing, individually and together. A pilgrimage is as much about the interior journey as the physical one.
What you'll
encounter
A selection of sites from the full five-day itinerary
The first national memorial to the more than 4,400 African Americans killed by racial terror lynching between 1877 and 1950 — a six-acre site overlooking Montgomery designed for truth-telling and reflection.
You'll walk across it yourself — the bridge where state troopers turned marchers back on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, and where the country's conscience finally broke open.
Located on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved people were held in Montgomery, this museum draws the direct line from slavery through racial terror, Jim Crow, and the current prison system.
The institute documenting Birmingham's civil rights history, paired with the park where the movement staged its most confrontational demonstrations in 1963.
Five days.
Four nights.
54 miles of history on foot and by bus.
- November 9–13, 2026
- Birmingham to Montgomery to Selma, following the historic march route
- Hotel accommodations throughout
- Breakfast daily; most lunches and dinners included
- Private bus transportation and professional tour manager
- All site admissions and program fees included
- Orientation and catered dinner on arrival night
- Open to the public — individuals and groups welcome
- Scholarships available to support access
A pilgrimage is not a vacation; it is a transformational journey during which significant change takes place. New insights are given. Deeper understanding is attained. On return, life is seen with different eyes. Nothing will ever be quite the same again.
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