Martin Luther King Services at Temple Emanuel, 1987-2021

 

Martin Luther King Services at Temple Emanuel, 1987-2021

 

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/2020/12/annual-mlk-shabbat-service-temple.html  and 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/63763/at-temple-emanuel-learning-in-order-to-do/editorial-opinion/?fbclid=IwAR2DfasD9rHQu1x-eh7LzpDMDnrtV3M3RBZNiopl0fa1djRIIE0LHphJkI8 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 Have We Done in Montgomery County, and What We Need To Do in the Future) 

 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 (King, Gandhi, Mandela: Giants of the 20^th Century, Beacons for the 21st^t) 

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 (What Would Dr. King Occupy?)

http://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-would-dr-king-occupy.html 

 

2011   Solange Hansen (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 (then-Deputy Executive Director of Metro DC PFLAG)

 

 2006   Delegate Herman Taylor (then-representative from District 14 (Olney/Sandy Spring/Ashton/Damasus/Burtonsville) in the General Assembly) 

 

2005   David Fishback (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, later County Executive)

 

2003   KESTY (Kensington Temple Emanuel Youth Group)

 

2002   Rabbi 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 (then-member of the Montgomery County Council)

 

1999   David Fishback (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 longtime Fair Haven members Pearl Green and Dr. William A. Phillips (1997 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics)  

 

1997   Operation Understanding Executive Director

 

1996   Richard Montgomery High School Gospel Choir

 

1995, 1994, No featured speakers

 

1993   David Fishback (“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, Civil Rights Lawyer and Temple Member