Congressional Delegation Tours Birmingham During Civil Rights Pilgrimage

By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times

A bipartisan delegation of members of Congress – blacks and whites; Democrats and Republicans; men and women — on March 3 toured the downtown Birmingham Civil Rights District as part of a pilgrimage to 12 sites, including landmarks in Montgomery and Selma.

The Faith and Politics Institute’s 2017 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage included historic Alabama landmarks such as Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.

Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., said the lessons of the civil rights movement are as important now as ever given the nation’s political divisiveness.“It talks about forgiveness and reconciliation, and those are important values that we can take back to Washington, D.C., and our work,” Sewell said. “Just because we come from different parties doesn’t mean we don’t want the same thing. All of us want our constituents to have better jobs, better lives, better education. We just disagree on how to get there.

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