Black, Jewish civic leaders from Cleveland visit Selma, Montgomery to learn history

Civic leaders from Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s civil rights mission recently visited Selma and Montgomery as part of a tour to learn more about civil rights history. 

Jill Zimon, co-chair of the mission was joined by Darrell McNair, who is also co-chair. Zimon said that the idea of visiting the Southeast came to her sometime after taking part in the Thomas and Joann Adler Civic Leaders Israel Mission in 2017.

She met with representatives of the Center for Human Rights and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland to make the visit possible.

They visited Atlanta and Birmingham before coming to Montgomery where they met with Mayor Steven Reed and visited the Mothers of Gynecology Monument, as well as the Rosa Parks Museum.

Afterwards they came to Selma to see Edmund Pettus Bridge and heard accounts of the Bloody Sunday incident of 1965.

See the story from Cleveland Jewish News here.