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Members of Congress and other people watch a play depicting the lives of four girls killed during a bomb attack in 1963 on 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday, March 1st. 2019. Dozens of congressmen participate in a pilgrimage weekend pilgrimage of civil rights throughout the state. (AP Photo / Jay Reeves)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Latest news of the pilgrimage for parliamentarians on civil rights in Alabama (all local times):
6:25 p.m.
Dozens of congressmen visited a memorial dedicated to lynch mob victims during a human rights pilgrimage that lasted a weekend through Alabama.
On Friday afternoon, the group visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial to Montgomery dedicated to the victims of lynching and the legacy of enslaved people.
Representative John Lewis, who was previously beaten by Alabama soldiers while trying to claim the right to vote, sank with the legislator in the memorial where brown monuments the size of a coffin are engraved the names of the victims of lynching.
Earlier in the day, the group stopped at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where four black girls died in a bomb attack on the Ku Klux Klan in 1963.
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Dozens of members of Congress make a civil rights pilgrimage weekend across Alabama.
The mostly Democratic group made its first stop on Friday at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where four black girls died in a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing.
Georgia's representative, John Lewis, who had been beaten by Alabama soldiers as he tried to walk for the right to vote, walked slowly to the stone staircase.
The members of the delegation watched a play describing the lives of the victims of the bombing and applauded a handful of veterans of civil rights.
The group will also visit a new memorial dedicated to thousands of victims of racial lynching in Montgomery and participate in the weekend's civil rights commemorations in Selma.
The annual civil rights trip is sponsored by the Faith and Politics Institute.
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