The Milly Sawyers Center

The Milly Sawyers Center We envision a community built on
a foundation of understanding and collaboration across all cultural groups.

We believe that through our shared efforts, we can be a strong, vibrant community where everyone belongs and every voice is heard.

Civil Rights pilgrimage day 4, MemphisSites: I Am a Man PlazaLorraine Motel
03/14/2026

Civil Rights pilgrimage day 4, Memphis
Sites: I Am a Man Plaza
Lorraine Motel

Civil Rights pilgrimage day 3, Tuskegee Sites: Tuskegee University George Washington Carver museum Tuskegee Airmen museu...
03/13/2026

Civil Rights pilgrimage day 3, Tuskegee
Sites: Tuskegee University
George Washington Carver museum
Tuskegee Airmen museum

Day 2, Montgomery - photos were not allowed in the museums or the homes. Sites: Legacy Museum and National Memorial for ...
03/12/2026

Day 2, Montgomery - photos were not allowed in the museums or the homes.
Sites: Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Rosa Parks' house
Rosa Parks museum
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church and Parsonage
Slave market site in Montgomery (the fountain)

Day 1, BirminghamSites: Kelly Ingram Park, Civil Rights Institute, 16th street Baptist Church, Edmund Pettus Bridge
03/11/2026

Day 1, Birmingham
Sites: Kelly Ingram Park, Civil Rights Institute, 16th street Baptist Church, Edmund Pettus Bridge

Civil Rights pilgrimage with #
03/10/2026

Civil Rights pilgrimage with #

03/10/2026

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So many rights we take for granted have come about in our lifetimes. We must continue to push and advocate for all of ou...
03/05/2026

So many rights we take for granted have come about in our lifetimes. We must continue to push and advocate for all of our rights because, as we've seen, they can be lost. We are thankful for the trailblazers and the history makers who have come before. May we have the fortitude to continue the work.

03/02/2026

On this last day of let's remember the person who is believed to be the first casualty of the American revolution, Cri...
02/28/2026

On this last day of let's remember the person who is believed to be the first casualty of the American revolution, Crispus Attucks. This country was built on, made rich on, prospered on the literal backs, blood, and lives of Black people and other people of color. When things are great for the most vulnerable, the 'least of these', then and only then will be great.

Crispus Attucks was an African American man killed during the Boston Massacre and believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution.

Rest in Power. 🖤🤎❤️“Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread. When we form a great quilt of un...
02/17/2026

Rest in Power. 🖤🤎❤️

“Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread. When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we’ll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation. We, the people, can win.”

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”

Just a handful of years after Milly's groundbreaking case in Springfield.
02/16/2026

Just a handful of years after Milly's groundbreaking case in Springfield.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

Some of our favorite nonfiction reads on race and the history of Black life in America.
02/15/2026

Some of our favorite nonfiction reads on race and the history of Black life in America.

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