CIVIL RIGHTS PILGRIMAGE
Created and produced by the phenomenal Rae Daniels. Amen!
MEMPHIS 10.20.2025
West Memphis, AR to Memphis, TN – 10 miles - 15 minutes travel time o Three-hour tour of Memphis courtesy of Tennessee Welcome Center o National Civil Rights Museum & the Lorraine Motel
GLENDORA 10.21.2025
West Memphis, AR to Glendora, MS – 115 miles – 2 hours travel time o Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center - - Glendora, MS to Money, MS – 35 miles – 1 hour travel time o Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market Money, MS to Jackson, MS – 110 miles – 2 hours travel time o Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
SELMA 10.22.2025
Ridgeland, MS to Selma, AL – 220 miles - 4 hours travel time o Edmund Pettus Bridge walk with guide - Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL – 50 miles – 1 hour travel time o Travel route of historic march to Capital & tour of local Montgomery sites
Montgomery 10.23.2025
o Arrive at Legacy Museum for a three-hour exploration o National Memorial for Peace and Justice o Freedom Monument Sculpture Park
Birmingham 10.24.2025
Montgomery, AL to Birmingham, AL – 90 miles – 1 ½ hours travel time o 16th Street Baptist Church o A.G. Gaston Motel & Museum o Kelly Ingram Park
MEMPHIS 10.24.2025
Birmingham, AL to Memphis, TN – 250 miles – 3 ½ hours travel time o Dinner at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale Street
documentaries viewed
“Stamped from the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi, “Four Little Girls” by Spike Lee, “Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings” and “Mississippi: Is This America?” and “Ain’t Scared of Your Jails” and “No Easy Walk” by Henry Hampton & Sam Pollard, “Selma” and “13th” by Ava DuVernay, and “I Am Not Your Negro” by James Baldwin