The UU Living Legacy Project is offering two powerful pilgrimages to the deep South this fall.
The first pilgrimage is 6 days in Mississippi and Memphis, October 15 through 20, for which the registration deadline has been extended to August 31. Note: You must pre-register first with Living Legacy and then register with Educational Travel Adventures (ETA). Scholarship assistance is available.
You will tour the powerful National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. From there the bus will take you south through the Mississippi Delta to learn about Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmett Till; visit the BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center; the Mt. Zion church in Philadephia whose church building was torched and congregation brutally beaten because they had agreed to host a Freedom School; and have many other experiences not possible without this kind of deep immersion. You will have deep conversations with veterans and survivors of the movement, and their families.
The pilgrimage staff for the Mississippi pilgrimage are the Rev. Dr. Gordon Gibson, himself a veteran of the movement; the Rev. Dr. Carlton E. Smith, son of Eddie Lee Smith, Jr. and Luberta Smith, the first Black Mayor and First Lady of Holly Springs, MS; Tufara Waller Muhammad, Music Educator and Song Leader who has worked for 25+ years at the nexus of art, culture, faith and justice; and a tour manager from ETA who will handle logistical details of the trip.
For more information on the October pilgrimage to Mississippi & Memphis, and to register: https://www.livinglegacypilgrimage.org/2024_oct_ms.html
The 5-day Alabama pilgrimage, November 13 through 17, was intentionally scheduled on the heels of the 2024 Presidential election. Regardless of the election results (if they’ll even be known by then), you will be traveling together in community to heal and grow from the turmoil of the previous months. It will be good to be together. Destinations will include Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma. For more information on the November pilgrimage to Alabama, and to register: https://www.livinglegacypilgrimage.org/202
