Save the dates for our 2018 Mississippi Pilgrimage!We are planning a four-day Pilgrimage to key Civil Rights Movement sites in Mississippi, October 28 to November 1, 2018.This affordable experience will include, among other stops, the site where three Civil Rights workers disappeared, Medgar Evers home, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the Mississippi Delta where Fannie Lou Hamer lived and died, and the area where young Emmett Till was killed. Registration will open soon. Join our Mailing List to be the first to hear.
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 
Staff of the 2018 Alabama Living Legacy Pilgrimage. From L to R first row: Dr. Janice Marie Johnson, Clarence Jones, Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson, and Rev. Dr. Gordon Gibson, Second row: Joseph Selmon, Matt Watroba, and Annette Marquis
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2014 Living Legacy Pilgrimage at 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
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Organizers of Marching in the Arc of Justice: A Conference to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign
Staff of the 2017 Living Legacy Pilgrimage at the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial in Ruleville, Mississippi: John Harris, Joseph Selmon, Clarence Jones, Rev. James A Hobart, Reggie Harris, and Annette Marquis
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If you have questions about the Living Legacy Project, please contact livinglegacypilgrimage@gmail.com.