Rabbi Robert J. Marx dead: Reform Judaism leader, attacked with MLK at famed 1966 Chicago march
Congregation Hakafa Rabbi Robert J. Marx’s description of the racial hatred he witnessed at a Southwest Side open housing march more than half a century ago still has the power to shock: “What I saw in Gage Park seared my soul. . . I saw how the concentration camp could have occurred, and how men’s hatred could lead them to kill. I saw Catholic priests reviled and nuns spat upon. I found myself — a rabbi — standing guard like a policeman, over a pile of rocks, for fear that grown men and mothers dragging little children around with them would seize those rocks and throw them at the ...
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