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4.04.2008

Commemorating 40 yrs since MLK

Forty-years ago today, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, on Erev Pesach, which this year falls on April 19th.

  • In "Portraits of History," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has collected stories of several people who knew MLK about that time.
  • Jspot, the community blog of Jewish Funds for Justice, has put together a site honoring MLK's memory with several reflections on his life and death.
  • And finally, here is Rabbi Arthur Waskow's personal account of his experiences that day.
    One year to the date before his death, 41 years ago, the Rev. gave this speech at Riverside Church in NY. Forty years later, there is still so much of his dream left to be fulfilled.

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