Heschel Selected Photos

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel's father, participated in the Selma Civil Rights March: March 21, 1965.  The march led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in July 1965.  From far left: U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), who had been severely beaten on March 7, 1965, while leading the "Bloody Sunday" march; an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Ralph Bunche, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Rabbi Heschel; the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

Professor Susannah Heschel and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at the March 6, 2005 Congressional delegation commemorating the Civil Rights efforts in Alabama.  Reverend Shuttlesworth marched in Selma with Heschel's father in 1965.  He led a church in Birmingham and founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, which pledged non-violence, in the late 1950's.

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