"Passover in the Ghetto"

"Passover in the Ghetto"

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

2015

Moshe Kornfield, Scott Meyer, Elias Sacks, Stephanie Yuhas, Andrew Violet, Jane Thaler

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The 1969 Freedom Seder was held in the basement of Lincoln Congregational Temple, the oldest African-American church in Washington, D.C. The neighborhood surrounding the church was at the center of the post-assassination uprising and would struggle for decades to recover and rebuild. The Freedom Seder received significant press coverage in print media, was broadcast live on a New York-based progressive radio station, and was the subject of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary. “Passover in the Ghetto” A headline in The Village Voice, a leading New York-based alternative newspaper, proclaimed: “Passover in the Ghetto: This Year in Washington.” Footage from the 1969 Freedom Seder can be viewed on Youtube.