Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black /Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, Pt. 2
About The Event
A lively and penetrating evening chronicling the important and supportive bond between Jewish and Black activists during the Civil Rights movement. In partnership with the National Archives.
Film: Excerpt from Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black/Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black/Jewish Civil Rights Alliance. A documentary film produced and developed by Dr. Shari Rogers, Ph.D., Founder and President of ‘Spill the Honey’ / Building Relationships LLC a 501c3 company.
Moderator: Deborah Lauter, Director, Civil Rights, Anti-Defamation League
Panelists: • C.T. Vivian, Dr. Gerald Durley, Civil Right icons, Rabbi Ben Kamin, teacher, counselor, Martin Luther King scholar and prize-winning author of 11 books on values. • Dr. Susannah Heschel, Jewish scholar and daughter of theologian, philosopher and Civil Rights activist, Rabbi Abraham Heschel • Rabbi Israel Si Dresner, past President, Education Fund for Israeli Civil Rights and Peace • Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism • With a special reading by Academy Award winning actor, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Performance jazz vocalist Yvette Spears and special guests from Temple Micah
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