UUA—Living Legacy Tour, 2009
"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 starts in either 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 or Memphis Tennessee, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated and is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum..."
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A bus load of Unitarian Universalist ministers and lay leaders spent a week together, walking the walk in the South, meeting the people and seeing the places that have shaped our history. The struggle for decency and dignity was alive and well in
Birmingham and in Selma, in Marion and
in Montgomery.
We talked together and we waled together
to strengthen the meaning of our faith. We
challenged one another and we laughed until
we cried, seeing—with our own eyes—how
justice comes into being. We walked in the
brightness of the morning to the memorial of
Unitarian minister, James Reeb. We walked
in the shadows of the night to the roadside
grave of Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old civil
rights activist from Michigan who was killed
outside of Selma in 1965.
Mark Morrison-Reed, Bill Sinkford, Clark Olsen, Janne Eller-Isaacs, Rob Eller-Isaacs, Orlanda Brugnola, Gini Courter, Hope Johnson, Janice Marie Johnson, Eric Kaminetsky and Annette Marquis were among the many who participated