On March 9, 1965, at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the Rev.
In the years since their passing, we have often been asked what they would say on issues and events.
We know they would march against the rolling back of civil rights and voting rights.
We have never needed their counsel more than in these past awful months, since Oct. 7.
Our hearts are broken by the hatred, violence and loss of life in Israel and Gaza.
Persons:
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Martin Luther King Jr, Ralph David Abernathy, Rabbi Israel Dresner, King’s, “, ” Abernathy, Dresner, Abernathy
Organizations:
- Jewish
Locations:
Selma, Ala, Montgomery, Israel, Gaza