The Faith & Politics Institute
2025 Civil Rights Pilgrimage

March 8, 2025

On Saturday, March 8, 2025, more than 200 guests including Members of Congress visited the Historic Courtroom of the Frank M. Johnson Courthouse during their annual Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama.

The program featured a conversation between author Stephen Wermiel (authorized biographer of Supreme Court Justice William Brennan) and attorney Peter Canfield (Johnson Institute Board Member and former law clerk to Judge Johnson and Judge Myron Thompson). Back by popular demand, theater artists from Alabama State University returned to perform a modified version of their moving piece, "Faces of a King: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."