LLP in the News
Unitarian Universalist Association Moderator Jim Key issued a call to return to Selma at the 2014 General Assembly. Read it here. Tentative schedule is now available for Marching in the Arc of Justice: Re-Visiting Selma: A Conference Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign, March 5-8, 2015 The Rev. Barbara Fast discusses her experiences on the 2013 Living Legacy Pilgrimage in the Danbury, CT, News- Times, Civil Rights Pilgrimage is an Eye-Opener. LLP Board Chair, The Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson, is profiled in Newsday: Garden City Church Leader Living a Legacy 2011 LLP participant, Wendy DeGroat, wrote a poem, "What Remains," about her reflections on Emmett Till's murder, which was recently published in the About Place Journal in their special issue, 1963-2003: A Civil Rights Retrospective. LLP Music Director, Reggie Harris, is highlighted in USA Today: Transplant gives singer second chance Watch the video in DelawareOnline 
Living Legacy Project board member, The Rev. Gordon Gibson, right, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after Gibson and a fellow Unitarian Universalist minister were released from jail in Selma, Ala., in 1965 after an African American voter registration drive.
Knoxville News Sentinel 
FBI missing poster when three American civil rights' workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi on the night of June 21, 1964.
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Join the 2014 Living Legacy Pilgrimage
November 1 - 8, 2014 The Living Legacy Pilgrimage is an experiential, spiritual journey through Alabama and Mississippi to visit the sites and meet the people who changed the world through the Civil Rights Movement, and specifically, the Voting Rights Movement of the 1950 and '60s. It's an unforgettable experience. Don't miss out! Registration is open now through September 15, 2014 The bus fills fast so register soon to secure your seat on the bus! Marching in the Arc of Justice: Re-Visiting Selma
A conference honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign Join Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) President Peter Morales, the UUA Board of Trustees, voting rights movement veterans, and others, as we return to Selma to affirm our solidarity with all those engaged in the ongoing struggles for human dignity, human rights, and social justice. Read UUA Moderator Jim Key's Call to Return to Selma.
We hope you'll join us! Registration will open soon!
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SPECIAL APPEAL for Re-Visiting Selma 2015
Please make a donation to support our scholarship and program fund for Marching in the Arc of Justice: Re-Visiting Selma: A Conference Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign. Help us make sure that civil rights movement veterans, youth, young adults and others who don't have the financial resources to come to Selma, can still join us. If you can help make that happen, please donate now. We suggest a donation of $50 but any amount, more or less, will be gratefully received. PLEASE NOTE: On the UUA Southern Region's Donation/Payment page, scroll to Living Legacy Project and enter your donation in the text box labeled "Re-Visiting Selma Scholarship and Program Fund." Thank you.
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Which event should I choose: Living Legacy Pilgrimage or Re-Visiting Selma?
Trying to decide between going on the 2014 Living Legacy Pilgrimage (Nov 1-8, 2014) or the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Movement (March 5-8, 2015)? If you can only do one, here's some help in deciding:
Trying to decide between going on the 2014 Living Legacy Pilgrimage (Nov 1-8, 2014) or the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Movement (March 5-8, 2015)? If you can only do one, here's some help in deciding:
- Living Legacy Pilgrimage: a week-long trip with a small group, through key civil rights sites in Alabama and Mississippi, with opportunities to meet and talk with Movement veterans, to sing, to learn, and to reflect (registration is open).
- Marching in the Arc of Justice: Re-Visiting Selma: an historic three+ day event focused on Selma, large crowds of UUs and others, opportunity to hear from Movement leaders (registration will open soon).
What is the Living Legacy Project?The Living Legacy Project grew out of the Reverend Gordon Gibson's and his wife Judy's passion for sharing the Civil Rights Movement story. Recognizing the importance of not only capturing this story, and our Unitarian Universalist role in it, but of understanding what this story teaches us about the continued work that still needs to be done, the Reverend Hope Johnson, Janice Marie Johnson, and Annette Marquis formed a partnership with Gordon and Judy, to establish the Living Legacy Project. In November of 2013, the founding members, along with singer/songwriter Reggie Harris, formed the Living Legacy Project Board, with a goal of developing long-range sustainability in service of our mission.
Today, we offer the Living Legacy Pilgrimage and other experiential learning opportunities to deepen understanding of the Civil Rights Movement by visiting the sites where it happened and talking with the people who lived it. More about the Living Legacy Project and its leaders 
The Living Legacy Project Board
The Rev. Hope Johnson, President; Reggie Harris, Member, Music Director; Annette Marquis, Treasurer; Janice Marie Johnson, Member; Gordon Gibson, Member For bios, visit, Leadership Bios |
If you have questions about the Living Legacy Project, contact us at livinglegacypilgrimage@gmail.com
