Martin Luther King Services at Temple Emanuel, 1986-2026

Martin Luther King Services at Temple Emanuel, 1986-2026

2026  Joshua Maxey, Executive Director of Bet Mishpachah and Member of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism.  See details and transcript of his presentation https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2026/01/martin-luther-king-jr-commemorative.html

2025 James L. Stowe, Director of the Montgomery County Government’s Office of Human Rights. (The State of Human Rights in Montgomery County and Efforts to Build and Sustain a Community of Caring as a New Administration Arrives in Washington D.C.) More details on the flyer here.

2024 Dee Sanae, Founder Mosaic Visions.

2023  Gloria M. Shepherd, Executive Director of the Federal Highway Administration (Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Temple Emanuel and Showing One Way That His Vision Is Being Realized by Governmental and Community Action)

https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2023/01/celebrating-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-at.html

2022   Sunil Dasgupta, Temple Member and Director of the Political Science Program for the University of Maryland/Baltimore County at the Universities at Shady Grove (The Relevance of Dr. King to the “Critical Race Theory” Controversy)   https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-relevance-of-dr-king-to-critical.html

 

2021  Yolanda Savage-Narva, Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Programs for the Union of Reform Judaism (Striving to Create Dr. King's Beloved Community: Reform Judaism's Quest for Racial Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion)  https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2021/01/

 

2020   Toni Holness, Public Policy Director, Maryland ACLU  (Making the Dream Real: Disparties in the Criminal Justice System)

https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2019/12/mlk-shabbat-service-on-jan-17-speaker.html and https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/at-temple-emanuel-learning-in-order-to-do/ and http://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2020/02/at-temple-emanuel-learning-in-order-to.html

 

2019   Brenda Wolff, Montgomery County Board of Education (Making the Dream Real: Challenges in Public Education in Montgomery County) 

https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019-temple-emanuel-mlk-service-with.html

 

2018   Ike Leggett, Montgomery County Executive (Implementing Dr. King's Vision: What We Have Done in Montgomery County, and What We Need To Do in theFuture) https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2018/01/county-executive-ike-leggetts.html

 

2017   Will Saletan, Slate and Temple Member (Facing Implicit Bias)

http://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2017/01/martin-luther-king-jr-shabbat-service.html

 

2016   Noah Roos and Micah Guthrie, Operation Understanding

 

2015   Rev. Carl Davis, Ken-Gar Baptist Church

 

2014   David Fishback, Temple Member (King, Gandhi, Mandela: Giants of the 20^th Century, Beacons for the 21st)  https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2018/05/temple-emanuel-jan-17-2014-king-gandhi.html

 

2013   Jonathan Jayes-Green (speaking in the context of the Maryland Dream Act and the Maryland Civil Marriage Equality Act)

 

2012   David Fishback, Temple Member (What Would Dr. King Occupy?)  http://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-would-dr-king-occupy.html 

 

2011   Solange Hansen, Temple Member (African-American recent convert to Judaism)

 

2010   Delegate Al Carr  (Al represents the District 16 (which includes the

Temple) in the General Assembly; he is a descendent of the enslaved-line of the Thomas Jefferson family)

 

2009   Bridget Bailey Lipscomb (The Joshua Generation in the Promised Land)  https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2018/01/2009-mlk-service-at-temple-emanuel.html

 

2008   Temple Emanuel Teen Choir

 

2007   Patricia Corbett (Deputy Executive Director of Metro DC PFLAG)

 

2006   Delegate Herman Taylor (representative from District 14 (Olney/Sandy

            Spring/Ashton/Damascus/Burtonsville) in the General Assembly

 

2005   David Fishback, Temple Member (Theology, Morality & Faith: A Legacy of Dr. King) http://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2015/11/theology-morality-and-faith-legacy-of.html

 

2004   Ike Leggett (then a member of the Montgomery County Council

 

2003   KESTY (Kensington Temple Emanuel Youth Group)

 

2002   Temple Emanuel Rabbi Warren Stone, Rev. Carl Davis, Iman Faisal Khan (this service was in the aftermath of 9/11)

 

2001   LaRae Jackson (Baltimore VISTA Volunteer)

 

2000   Steve Silverman, Temple Member (member of the Montgomery County Council)

 

1999   David Fishback, Temple Member (Dr. King and the Second American Revolution) http://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2017/07/dr-king-and-second-american-revolution.html

1998   Fair Haven United Methodist Church Choir and Dr. William A. Phillips (1997 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics and longtime member of Fair Haven)

 

1997   Operation Understanding Executive Director

 

1996   Richard Montgomery High School Gospel Choir

 

1995, 1994, 1993  No featured speakers

 

1992   David Fishback, Temple Member and Member of the Montgomery County Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Committee (“King: Lessons for the Closing Decade of the Century”)

 

1990   Shirley Small Rougeau, Civil Rights Activist

 

1989   Rev. Alfred Moser

 

1988   Charles Morgan, Civil Rights Attorney

 

1987   Phineas Indritz, Temple Member and Civil Rights Lawyer