Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center youth leader Jayda Gray practices public speaking for the 2020 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage while her colleagues Ellie Lee and Jaylin Brown watch and coach her. (Photo courtesy of the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center)

To see the sites where it happened, to walk in the footsteps of those who changed the course of American history — it’s the opportunity of a lifetime for seven youth leaders from Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center, and they’re taking full advantage of it.

The teens will attend the 2020 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama this weekend (March 6-8) as guests of Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, accompanying dozens of members of Congress to historic spots in Alabama that were key to the struggle for racial equality.

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