a pilgrimage experience

Dr. King & the Civil Rights Movement

We are thrilled that you are joining this experience.
A pilgrimage is not as much a journey to a place but an intention of becoming.
As you prepare for this experience, we think the following resources will deepen and expand your experience. Take these not as assignments but as invitations.

  • Explore this extensive list of essays, sermons, speeches and interviews of Dr. King.

  • Watch the 2015 movie Selma (available on Amazon Prime) that details the experiences surrounding Selma AL and the march to Montgomery.

  • Watch MLK Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. (17 mins)

  • TedTalk “We Need to Talk about Injustice” w/ Bryan Stevenson (23 mins)

  • Watch this video from the Holy Post discussing the history of Race in America. (18 mins)

  • Listen to Billie Holiday sing “Strange Fruit”

  • Watch this short video on Austin’s history of segregation and economic inequality. (2 mins)

  • Go to Netflix and watch “Rustin” which tells the story of a less known and closeted character behind the scenes in the Civil Rights movement who supported and guided Dr. King.

  • Watch the documentary True Justice which tells the story of Bryan Stevenson and Equal Justice Institute. (1 hr 40 mins)

  • James Cone interview with Bill Moyers regarding the theological and historical connection in America’s practices of lynching. (45 minutes)