February 11-18, 2009

The 2009 Living Legacy Civil Rights Pilgrimage is more than a civil rights tour. It is being planned by a team of people who participated in Meadville Lombard’s Southern Civil Rights Tour last March and found themselves deeply moved to the point of envisioning something more. Perhaps you could call it “the next step,” or “building from the past to create the future.” It will begin and end in Birmingham, Alabama, and will include stops in Marion, Selma, and Montgomery, Alabama, as well as Meridian and Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Visiting the sites of civil rights activity forty to fifty years ago and talking with veterans of that Movement affects one’s thoughts and feelings. It could be a superb preparation for deepening one’s understanding and commitment for work on the issues of race, oppression, and injustice that still bedevil Unitarian Universalism.

This Living Legacy Pilgrimage is intended to bring together people who can create a vision that will connect our Unitarian Universalist legacy of work in the Civil Rights Movement to the UUA’s current commitment to becoming an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, multicultural institution and to understanding the responsibility of the UUA and our congregations in doing the important work of racial reconciliation where it is indicated and necessary.

Preliminary Schedule

Costs and Registration

Download the full-color Living Legacy Brochure 

For more information, contact any member of the planning team:

• The Reverend Gordon Gibson (gjgibson@juno.com)
• Judy Gibson (judygibson@bellsouth.net)
• The Reverend Hope Johnson (YoursHOPE@aol.com)
• Janice Marie Johnson (jmasakhane@aol.com)
• The Reverend Wendy Pantoja (Wendypaz@aol.com)
• Annette Marquis (amarquis@uua.org)