House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and other members of Congress will spend the weekend on a civil rights pilgrimage, led by Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a celebrated civil rights figure.
The annual pilgrimage, which will take place Friday to Sunday, is organized by the Faith and Politics Institute, a non-profit organization that offers bipartisan retreats such as this one.
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The bipartisan group will travel through Alabama where they plan to honor the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and mark the 50th anniversaries of the March on Washington, the desegregation of the University of Alabama, the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, and the Martin Luther King letters from Birmingham Jail, among other civil rights milestones. The three-day journey will take the lawmakers through Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and Selma.
