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.

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.

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.

Culture

Jews and civil rights

United States

Interfaith group sends King memorial prayer to synagogues

Ideas

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

United States

Hillel provides special edition of King speech

Ideas

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

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