Walk to Freedom

About

Walk to Freedom is led by Ken Johnston, a Philadelphia-based walking artist, who responds to the call of social change and history by walking to put Movement back in the civil rights movement. During the past two years, he has traced the footsteps of Harriet Tubman’s movements between known Underground Railroad communities from Maryland to Canada. In 2018, he completed a 400-mile solo walking journey across the Deep South for MLK50 from Selma, Alabama to Memphis, Tennessee visiting the many places Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. either worked, pastored, or led peaceful protests.Internationally, he has walked across Ireland symbolically linking its short lived Civil Rights movement with the U.S., and across Puerto Rico on the second anniversary of Hurricane Maria following the trajectory of the devastating storm’s path.In 2023, he made his fourth walk across the Mason Dixon line from Harpers Ferry to Gettysburg exploring Black communities bordering northern free states.