Legacy Journeys invites you to join us on a journey to reexamine American History and begin to collectively imagine what we as individuals and communities are called to do to nurture the beloved community. 

On this trip:

• We will hear from foot soldiers who brought about and participated in the marches that are credited with being a final push towards the passage of the Voting Rights Act. 

• We will follow the path of the marchers to Montgomery a city significant for this march but also served as a hub of the slave trade, the Capital of the Confederacy, home of Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and now the home of the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. 

• We will focus our time in Montgomery on the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy sites but also experience a tour of the city provided by More Than Tours ending at the Mother's of Gynecology Monument, Rosa Parks Museum, and eat some really good food.  

Equal Justice Initiative

The Legacy Museum is the pinnacle of our trip this museum will immerse us in the history of slavery and its legacy in America. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice offers a space for reflection on the period of mass lynching. Freedom Monument Sculpture park is a collection of world class art that communicates the Black experience in America in ways beyond anything that words could. 

More Than Tours and Mothers of Gynecology Museum 

Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey were enslaved women from plantations in and around Montgomery, Alabama. With neither consent nor anesthesia, they were experimented upon by Dr. J. Marion Sims who became known as the Father of Gynecology. This 15-foot monument honors Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, telling their story

and shining a light on ongoing racial disparities in the healthcare industry today. 

By the River Center for Humanity

Using sound, movement, and performance, Afriye can create an unconventional healing space to guide participants through the spiritual and emotional releases that can suddenly surface and go unattended during an academic study of the topics of slavery.

Selma to Montgomery

We will pick up the Civil Rights Trail on a day trip to Selma Alabama where we will hear from foot-solidiers who were part of the mass meetings and marches that led to the Voting Rights Acts passage, visit the locations of the mass meetings, and walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.