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sheshe2

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Fri Mar 20, 2015, 07:33 PM Mar 2015

Jim Letherer, civil rights activist and Orthodox Jew. The Walk Against Fear with Martin Luther King

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Jim Letherer, a one-legged observant Jew who walked 50 miles on crutches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 to support the rights of African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. During the march, Letherer helped keep spirits high by unswervingly shouting out cadence for his remaining leg, chanting, “Left, left, left!”


Respect. -Debra
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/black-history-month-2015-civil-rights-allies-article-1.2129213

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Jim Letherer was an American civil rights activist and Orthodox Jew.He marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the Walk Against Fear in 1966. Letherer had one leg and marched with King the entire 50 miles.

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Jim Letherer, civil rights activist and Orthodox Jew. The Walk Against Fear with Martin Luther King (Original Post) sheshe2 Mar 2015 OP
Kicking for Jim.... sheshe2 Mar 2015 #1
k&r! nt steve2470 Mar 2015 #2
Thank you steve. sheshe2 Mar 2015 #4
Wow.. How inspiring Jim Letherer is.. Mahalo, she~ Cha Mar 2015 #3
Fifty miles on crutches with one leg, Cha.... sheshe2 Mar 2015 #5
Yeah, I know the feeling.. but, I just walked for a long long hike at Big Sur.. good for you guys! Cha Mar 2015 #6
Fellow hiker..... sheshe2 Mar 2015 #7
Those were the days.. Cha Mar 2015 #8

sheshe2

(83,336 posts)
5. Fifty miles on crutches with one leg, Cha....
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 08:49 PM
Mar 2015

Singing left, left. left.

I did 21 once. Walk for hunger. Longest I had done. Got back to our T stop. My legs had seized up. I could barely get off the train.

Kudos for Jim. His strength and his belief for what is right.

Cha

(295,903 posts)
6. Yeah, I know the feeling.. but, I just walked for a long long hike at Big Sur.. good for you guys!
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 08:53 PM
Mar 2015

sheshe2

(83,336 posts)
7. Fellow hiker.....
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 09:15 PM
Mar 2015

I did MT Washington as well....younger then. Sleep over. Ummm scarey to go pee at night with bears around.

Still painful to walk and climb, carry that pack!

Yikes! Blisters! Holy Moley.....

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