Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr. made ‘I Have a Dream’-style speech at a synagogue in ’61

The address uses phrases and themes from the famed speech he made two years later in Washington.

February 26, 2018 1:24 pm

From the Archive: Boys of Freedom Summer

Murdered activists Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner would become symbols of Jewish involvement in the civil rights struggle. But in 1964, they barely caught JTA’s attention.

August 7, 2014 10:33 am

50 years later, rabbis jailed in civil rights protest return to St. Augustine

In June 1964, a group of Reform rabbis were arrested protesting segregation in Florida — and some of them returned a half-century later to remember.

June 24, 2014 3:54 pm

Jews and civil rights

By Joe Winkler August 22, 2013 2:41 pm

Interfaith group sends King memorial prayer to synagogues

By Gil Shefler January 17, 2013 4:27 pm

Opinion

Op-Ed: ‘Kavannah’ counts in Jewish service projects

By Jason Kimelman-Block January 12, 2010 1:05 am

Hillel provides special edition of King speech

By Eric Fingerhut January 13, 2009 8:00 pm

Opinion

Op-Ed: King’s pro-Israel legacy should guide Obama

By Marc Schneier January 12, 2009 12:40 am

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