Local Rabbi Heading To Selma

March 3, 2015

Rabbi Chava Bahle, spiritual leader of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, is traveling to Selma and Birmingham, Alabama this week to participate in "Marching in the Arc of Justice" to honor the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday."

The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On Sun., Mar. 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U. S. Route 80. They only got six blocks – to the Edmund Pettus Bridge – where state and local lawmakers attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas.

Bahle will blog and tweet reflections from the trip here and on Twitter @RabbiChavaBahle. She will also share "Notes from Selma" at the UU Congregation (6726 Center Road) on March 22 at 10:30am.