San Diego Jewish Women make Pilgrimage to the Deep South learning about the Civil Rights Movement just days before MLK Day

SAN DIEGO — A group of about 15 women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited civil rights landmarks and shared pictures and video with CBS 8.

Walking across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, these women felt the weight of history. They retraced the footsteps of civil rights marchers who faced brutal violence on Bloody Sunday in 1965.

“She was jailed, she was beaten, she lost her mother by just 15 minutes because she couldn’t get a blood transfusion,” Dana Koenig, Jewish Federation of San Diego said…

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