SC Senator Tim Scott to take part in Civil Rights Pilgrimage

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Some South Carolina Senators and Representatives– will take part in a Civil Rights Pilgrimage to South Carolina.
U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), along with U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), will host the Faith and Politics Institute’s 2016 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to South Carolina March 18-20, 2016.

According to Senator Scott, participants will learn about South Carolina civil rights pioneers such as Septima Clark and about the 400-year old Gullah Geechee cultural heritage. The delegation is scheduled to visit such historic sites as Zion and Brookland Baptist Churches and that of the Orangeburg massacre.

Who: U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)
U.S. Representatives Jim Clyburn (D-SC)
U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA)
FPI President Joan Mooney

What: 2016 Pilgrimage to South CarolinaKick-off Press Conference

When: 11:30am

Where: Zion Baptist Church
801 Washington Street
Columbia, SC