In Alabama, exposing the complicated history of Jews in the struggle for civil rights

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – There were the rabbis who joined Martin Luther King, Jr. on the famous march from Selma to Montgomery, the Jewish students who helped register Black voters in Mississippi, the Jewish Freedom Riders who fought bus segregation in the South, and the Jewish social justice activists who helped found and fund the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).