You will learn about the struggle for dignity and humanity from museums, significant places and powerful memorials.
You will also hear first-hand reflections from people who participated in the civil rights movement as well as learn from others who help unpack the significance of the civil rights movement, the lessons we need to learn from it, and the way in which this is an ongoing struggle for justice and equality that this history both tells and invites us to participate in.
Your pilgrimage might begin in Tennessee or Georgia with visits to places like the National Center for Human and Civil Rights. Then travel to Alabama and Mississippi for fellowship and prayer with Mission Network partners, guided walking tours and museums.
Day 1 (Tuesday)
Travel to Atlanta Dinner with Casa Alterna
Travel to Atlanta
Dinner with Casa Alterna
Day 2 (Wednesday)
Human and Civil Rights walking tour of Atlanta Lunch at Sweet Auburn Curb Market Afternoon: Travel to Montgomery Evening: Check-in and debrief
Human and Civil Rights walking tour of Atlanta
Lunch at Sweet Auburn Curb Market
Afternoon: Travel to Montgomery
Evening: Check-in and debrief
Day 3 (Thursday)
National Memorial for Peace and Justice Legacy Museum in MontgomeryEvening: Check-in and debrief
National Memorial for Peace and Justice Legacy Museum in Montgomery
Day 4 (Friday)
Tour of Montgomery and Selma Afternoon/Evening: Check-in and Prep for Friday: review story of Freedom Summer murders and watch Neshoba: The Price of Freedom Lodging at Pine Lake Fellowship Camp
Tour of Montgomery and Selma
Afternoon/Evening: Check-in and Prep for Friday: review story of Freedom Summer murders and watch Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
Lodging at Pine Lake Fellowship Camp
Day 5 (Saturday)
Tour of Philadelphia, MS, story of Freedom Summer murders Dancing Rabbit Treaty Site Meal and contacts at Nanih Waiya Mennonite Church Evening: Check-in Lodging at Pine Lake Camp
Tour of Philadelphia, MS, story of Freedom Summer murders
Dancing Rabbit Treaty Site
Meal and contacts at Nanih Waiya Mennonite Church
Evening: Check-in
Lodging at Pine Lake Camp
Day 6 (Sunday)
Worship with Open Door Mennonite Church in Jackson Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Conversation with folks from Open Door Evening: Check-in
Worship with Open Door Mennonite Church in Jackson
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Conversation with folks from Open Door
Day 7 (Monday)
Jackson or Memphis Evening check-in and ending celebration
Jackson or Memphis
Evening check-in and ending celebration
Day 8 (Tuesday)
Travel day home
Pilgrims set out not so much to assist strangers but to eat with them. They journey in the wisdom about transformation held in the Rwandan proverb “if you cannot hear the mouth eating, you cannot hear the mouth crying.
- From The “Practice of Pilgrimage” by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things, 2008.
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