The Rabbi Who Spoke Out for Civil Rights in America

Rabbi Joachim Prinz spoke to the crowd gathered at the National Mall in Washington D.C. the day Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech.

A survivor of the Holocaust, he refused to stand aside during the fight against injustice in America.

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