Remembering June, 1964 - a Retrospective 60 years Later

Join the LMCC for a video presentation on the six rabbis who returned to St. Augustine for the 50th anniversary of the mass arrest and a musical performance by Rob Tobias.

The rabbis came in response to a letter written by Dr. King addressed to the CCAR Conference (Central Conference of American Rabbis). They felt strongly about standing up for human rights because they “realized that injustice in St. Augustine, as anywhere else, diminishes the humanity of each of us” (https://rac.org/why-we-went-joint-letter-rabbis-arrested-st-augustine, and were arrested the same day that the pool incident happened at the Monson). Sixteen rabbis participated in the demonstration at the Monson Motor Lodge where they were arrested in St. Augustine after protesting for Civil Rights, which was the largest mass arrest of Jewish Rabbis in U.S. History.

On June 17, 2014, six of the original group returned to the city to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The video presentation will go into detail on their return to St. Augustine.

Tickets are $5 per person available on Eventbrite. This presentation will be on the upstairs floor of the LMCC.