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Civil Rights Bus Tour

On July 25 – 30, 2022, Minary’s Dream Alliance (MDA) and the James Taylor Justice Coalition (JTJC) of Sumner Hall sponsored a community bus tour of significant Civil Rights sites in Alabama and Atlanta. Staff, community members, and over 30 local youth visited the Civil Rights Institute, 16th Street Baptist Church and A.G. Gaston Hotel in Birmingham, the Edmund Pettus Bridge and National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, and the King Center in Atlanta.

At the Legacy Museum, the tour group delivered a soil sample collected as part of an Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Community Remembrance Project conducted by the JTJC on May 14, 2022 to recognize and honor James Taylor who was lynched in Chestertown in 1892. The EJI has identified 6,500 lynching victims (38 in Maryland) and collects soil samples from lynching sites for permanent display at the Legacy Museum.

Local filmmaker [name] joined the tour to document the reactions, impacts, and feelings of the participants and to create a record of this tour. This documentary is now available to view on YouTube, below, and will eventually become part of the Chesapeake Heartland digital archive. Students’ written trip reflections will also be submitted to the archive as a record of this impactful journey.

“Get on the Bus” Documentary

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About the James Taylor Justice Coalition (JTJC):

The JTJC is dedicated to the mission of educating our community about the injustice of James Taylor’s 1892 lynching and to make the connection between the racial terror lynchings of the past and convict leasing, peonage, mass incarceration, incidents of police brutality and discrimination of today.

Funding for this project was made possible through a Chesapeake Heartland Community Curation Fellowship awarded to Philip Dutton, a founder of the James Taylor Justice Coalition and a member of the Board of Directors of Minary’s Dream Alliance.