Shared Legacies, Shared Futures: Honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through the Eulogy Delivered by Rabbi Dick Hirsch

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968.  The Jewish community of Greater Washington gathered for a memorial service on April 7, 1968. Two thousand people were in attendance. 

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Rabbi Richard (Dick) Hirsch, of blessed memory — the visionary leader who founded the Religious Action Center of the Reform Movement — shares his 1968 eulogy for his close friend and esteemed colleague, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  

Delivered before 2,000 people at Washington’s largest synagogue, Rabbi Hirsch’s words serve as a potent reminder that Dr. King’s dream was built upon an essential interfaith and interracial partnership—a moral coalition that transformed America.