04/17/2026
The Civil Rights Pilgrimage group continues to have a moving and meaningful trip as they toured various sites in the South.
Did you know lynchings happened all over the United States? Bringing that thought far closer to home, the National Memorial for Justice and Peace, as part of the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, lists the five Black men who were lynched in Posey County, Indiana.
Another engraved monument lists the 120,000 different surnames that the formerly enslaved chose in the first census after their emancipation.
In 1961, the Freedom Riders, many of whom were college students, were determined to see the ruling in the court case "Boynton vs. Virginia" being upheld in the South. This ruling mandated the integration of the interstate bus system. Over 200 Klan supporters in Montgomery met the Black and white Riders with intense violence. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was enraged and became involved, which resulted in him sending 450 U.S. Marshals to the area.
Today they are in Wallace, LA, touring the Whitney Plantation.
