A Haggadah for the Negro community, to be used at annual celebrations of the civil rights movement, is being prepared by a Scuthern Christian Leadership Conference committee, Mrs. Virgil Wood, president of the Massachusetts unit of the conference, announced today.
Rabbi Meyer J. Strassfeld, of Congregation Agudath Israel, Dorchester, an Orthodox rabbi who is a member of the steering committee of the SGLC, is serving as consultant for the Hadgadah. It will be patterned after the Jewish Haggadah and will contain Negro history, songs, prayer and symbols depicting both slavery and freedom.
Members of the committee expressed the hope that the special Haggadah would help eliminate some of the anti-Jewish, as well as anti-Negro sentiments which they said were present in some elements among Negro and white groups. The committee hopes to complete the project this summer.
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