From Georgia- “This day restores my faith in humanity”
-- Spoken by a 12-year-old
The 12-year-old who spoke the above quote was reflecting upon her experiences as a participant in the Jonathan Daniels and Martyrs of Alabama Memorial Pilgrimage which took place in Hayneville, Ala., on Saturday.
The event was organized by the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama 15 years ago to pay tribute to Jonathan Daniels, a young white seminary student from Massachusetts who was murdered along with a large array of African-Americans including the four little girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing.
Our day began at 6:30 a.m. when we met in the parking lot of St. Augustine’s of Canterbury Episcopal Church on the south side of Atlanta with a group that had traveled from Macon, Warner Robins, north Georgia and Massachusetts. The pilgrimage was organized by the Diocese of Atlanta’s Commission for Dismantling Racism and led by Bishop Robert Wright.
In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sent out the call for pastors and religious leaders to come to Alabama to help forge the struggle for liberation in in that state and the young seminary student Jonathan Daniels was among the folks who responded.
Read more here:
http://www.macon.com/2013/08/14/2606634/meeks-restoring-our-faith.html#storylink=cpy
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