This Sunday: Shared Legacies Screening & Panel

Shared Legacies: The African-American – Jewish Civil Rights Alliance will be presented by the Walnut Street Synagogue of Chelsea, MA, this Sunday, June 8, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Williams Middle School (180 Walnut St.)

This 95-minute documentary explores the Black-Jewish collaboration during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, which led to major legislative victories including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, creed, color, sex, or national origin, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which aimed to prevent states from disenfranchising minority voters.

Janna Kaplan, daughter-in-law of Edward Kaplan, is scheduled to speak. Edward Kaplan marched with his father, Abraham Heschel, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the March 1965 “Bloody Sunday” police attack on civil rights marchers.

Free entry.

Eventbrite Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shared-legacies-american-lessons-of-blackjewish-cooperation-tickets-1353947997909?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Chelsea Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.