Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated just eight days before Passover in 1968. Among those grieving his loss were Jews who had joined his nonviolent protest movement, and were dedicated to the causes of civil rights and peace that he championed. Many Jews brought discussions about civil rights to their seder tables that year.
By the next year, Rabbi Arthur Waskow had come up with the Freedom Seder. The inaugural seder, held in a black church in the heart of Washington D.C., and attended by Jews and other civil rights activists, intertwined the story of slavery under Pharaoh with the story of Black America’s struggle for liberation, and the liberation of other peoples as well.
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