The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 16, 2008

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

To honor Dr. King’s legacy the Museum presents an interfaith discussion that focuses on the relationship between spiritual practice and social change. Leaders from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim communities will discuss the lessons of justice and equality that inspire their own activism.

This program is dedicated to the memory of Carolyn Goodman, who became a nationally prominent civil rights advocate and social justice activist after her son Andrew, along with two other young civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.



Moderated by Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President, The Interfaith Alliance Foundation;

With Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., West Side Jesuit Community

Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Pastor Abyssinian Baptist Church

Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Director, Islamic Chaplaincy and Professor, Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary

Rev. T.K. Nakagaki, Head Resident Minister, The New York Buddhist Church

Author Al Vorspan, Director of Social Action Emeritus, Union for Reform Judaism

Co-sponsored by The Interfaith Alliance Foundation

Official Website: http://www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_15.htm#goodman