On the evening of March 25, 1968, ten days before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., zikhrono livrakhah, appeared at the sixty-eighth annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly. We invite you to read the transcript of that powerful and inspiring conversation here, along with our other civil rights-related CJ Journal Classics.
We are also pleased to provide these additional resources in anticipation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 21:
- A Prayer in Honor of Martin Luther King Day by Lily Kaufman
- Responsive Reading Based on the Words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by A. Nathan Abramowitz
- Conservative Rabbis on MLK's Lasting Legacy
- Resources Related to Racial Justice and Recent Police Shootings (2016)
- Theological Affinities in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Susannah Heschel