Staff of the 2013 Living Legacy Pilgrimage
(left to right) Janice Marie Johnson, Valerie Walker, Judy Gibson, Joseph Selman, Hope Johnson, Jimmie Page, Annette Marquis, Gordon Gibson, and Reggie Harris |
Participants in the 2013 Living Legacy Pilgrimage
at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL 
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The Living Legacy Pilgrimage
The Living Legacy Pilgrimage is a journey to meet the people, hear the stories, and visit the sites that changed the world in the Civil Rights Movement. This eight-day experience will take you from Birmingham, Alabama, where the 1963 bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four little girls, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley to Oxford, Mississippi, where James Meredith became the first African American to integrate iconic Ole Miss. The Pilgrimage is much more than a civil rights history tour. In addition to visiting historic sites, we meet veterans, many of them unsung heroes and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. Additionally, we spend time exploring what today’s racism, white privilege, and barriers to equality look like in the Southern towns we visit -- and in our own hometowns. As a spiritual pilgrimage, we reflect on what we experience together so when we each return home we can apply what we have learned to make a difference in today's world. Civil rights movement veterans and talented musicians help us engage the stories and music of the Movement. Songwriter and music educator, Reggie Harris, whose repertoire includes music of the Freedom Movement, is part of the Living Legacy Pilgrimage staff. Reggie is one-half of the musical duo Kim and Reggie Harris. Reggie's music and storytelling deepens our journey and offers the opportunity for each of us to engage in Beloved Community by joining our voices in song. The Living Legacy Project Board of Trustees, the Reverend Hope Johnson, the Reverend Gordon Gibson, Judy Gibson, Reggie Harris, and Janice Marie Johnson, and Annette Marquis would love to have you join us.
What is a Pilgrimage?A pilgrimage is a ritual journey with a hallowed purpose. Every step along the way has meaning. The pilgrim knows that life giving challenges will emerge. 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. New and old places in the heart are visited. Blessings are received and healing takes place. On return from the pilgrimage, life is seen with different eyes. Nothing will ever be quite the same again.
Behold Your Life by Macrina Wiederkeh |
Ms. Angela Lewis, daughter of slain civil rights activist, James Earl Chaney, meets with the 2012 Living Legacy Pilgrimage participants at her father's grave in Meridian, Mississippi.
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The Living Legacy Project is in partnership with the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice to offer Civil Rights Journeys, specially tailored for young people ages 15-20. Watch for upcoming announcements for 2014.
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