The document summarizes an 8-day bus tour hosted by the Common Ground Project that visited 11 cities significant to the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The tour started in Pittsburgh and traveled over 2,333 miles, visiting sites like the Levine Museum of the New South, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, which was the scene of violent attacks against black protesters. The tour provided opportunities for participants to learn about civil rights leaders and foot soldiers like Joseph DeLaine, Juanita Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, and Viola Liuzzo.

1. “ Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights” A Bus Tour Hosted by The Common Ground Project & Sponsored by The Nutrition Group and PNC

2. 6 th Annual Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights Bus Tour Early in the morning of June 9, 2007 a diverse group of people from various parts of the U.S. set out from the Pittsburgh area for an eight-day, 2,333-mile tour of eleven cities of significance in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s.

3. Cities People Sites of Significance

4. Levine Museum of the New South David Thompson – Basketball Star & Youth Minister

5. Joseph DeLaine True hero of the civil rights struggle who broke down barriers in education in South Carolina Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal

6. Martin Luther King Jr. Center Martin Luther King Jr. Museum

7. Georgia State University Juanita Abernathy As a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement, Juanita Abernathy participated in all of the pivotal protests of the era. She helped rally the black community in Montgomery, Alabama as her husband Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956).

8. Georgia State University C.T. Vivian Living legend of the Civil Rights Movement continues his activism today, tirelessly working for the progress of African Americans and the civil and political rights of all peoples.

9. Rev. Robert and Jeannie Graetz As a young couple, with Bob newly ordained, the Graetz’s accepted the call to an all-black church in Montgomery, AL only a short time before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They soon found themselves in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and have remained there ever since – in spite of two bombings of their home and countless other challenges.

10. Rev. Robert Graetz & Wife Jeannie C.T. Vivian & Juanita Abernathy

11. C.T. Vivian & Juanita sign autographs.

12. National Voting Rights Museum Although black people had been granted the right to vote, many whites did whatever they could to prevent them.

13. Absurd tests were administered & registering to vote was almost impossible for black people.

14. Edmund Pettus Bridge scene of some of the bloodiest attacks against black people during the Civil Rights Movement

15. Viola Liuzzo April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965, a Unitarian Universalist committed to work for education and economic justice, gave her life for the cause of civil rights. The 39-yr-old mother of five was murdered by white supremacists after her participation in the protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A “KKK ‘missionary squad’ spotted Liuzzo and her black driver. They followed them for 20 miles. About half way between Selma & Montgomery the four men pulled their car up next to hers and shot her. Liuzzo was killed instantly.