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Mitzi Steiner

Mitzi Steiner majored in American Studies and Human Rights at Barnard College. A graduate of Yale Law School, she currently works in New York City.

  • Rabbis holding a prayer service with civil rights demonstrators in the parking lot of the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964, are attacked by motel manager James Brock.
    Rabbis holding a prayer service with civil rights demonstrators in the parking lot of the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964, are attacked by motel manager James Brock.
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    Why They Went: The Forgotten Story of the St. Augustine 17

    55 years ago today, 16 American rabbis and one lay leader were arrested in a civil rights protest organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    byMitzi Steiner
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