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Civil Rights Journey

Date: Sunday, October 29 - Wednesday, November 1
Time: All Day

The history of our country’s Civil Rights journey in the South remains as important today as ever before. Join us for a unique and meaningful mission through Georgia and Alabama exploring Jewish involvement and pivotal moments of the Civil Rights struggle in America.

Cost: $2,200 per person, land-only, based on double occupancy, $350 single supplement 

Highlights will include*:  

  • Tour the National Center for Civil & Human Rights  
  • Visit the Martin Luther King Center  
  • Reflect at the Equal Justice Initiative’s Memorial to Peace & Justice and tour their Legacy Museum  
  • Walk on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with a participant from the March on Selma  
  • Meet with leaders and historians from the local Jewish community who were there and who have made the South their home

*Itinerary in formation and subject to change

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This mission welcomes individuals and households making a minimum gift of $1,800 to the 2024 UJA Annual Campaign.


Mission Chairs:
Marcia & Craig Grosswald and Genesia & Steve Kamen

For more information contact:
Heidi Kuperman,
Missions Director
hkuperman@jfedgmw.org | (973) 929-3046

Susan Ferber
Senior Major Gifts Officer
sferber@jfedgmw.org | (973)929-2986

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