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Black History Month Special Jews, Blacks, & Race
This essay provides an overview of the history of the black-Jewish relationships in the twentieth century. The record shows quite clearly that Jewish organizations as well as a great number of individual Jews contributed enormously to the success of the movement to increase the power of blacks and alter the racial hierarchy of the United States.
http://www.counter-currents.com/2012...ce/#more-23355
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From the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Blacks and Jews marched arm-in-arm. In 1909, W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Stephen Wise and Henry Malkewitz formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). One year later other prominent Jewish and Black leaders created the Urban League. Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington worked together in 1912 to improve the educational system for Blacks in the South. Thus, in the 1930s and '40s when Jewish refugee professors arrived at Southern Black Colleges, there was a history of overt empathy between Blacks and Jews, and the possibility of truly effective collaboration. Professor Ernst Borinski organized dinners at which Blacks and Whites would have to sit next to each other - a simple yet revolutionary act. Black students empathized with the cruelty these scholars had endured in Europe and trusted them more than other Whites. In fact, often Black students - as well as members of the Southern White community - saw these refugees as "some kind of colored folk." The unique relationship that developed between these teachers and their students was in some ways a microcosm of what was beginning to happen in other parts of the United States. The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League were central to the campaign against racial prejudice. Jews made substantial financial contributions to many civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Urban League, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. About 50 percent of the civil rights attorneys in the South during the 1960s were Jews, as were over 50 percent of the Whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 to challenge Jim Crow Laws. Following on the footsteps of the Jewish organized Negro dissident campaign often referred to as the "Civil Rights movement", Jews in the 1960's began turning their attention toward luring White American youths away from the solid traditional family values they had been brought up in. Three of the most outspoken Jews who were instrumental in founding the hippie counter-culture of the 1960's were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Allen Ginsberg. One of the major events which helped to kickstart the Hippie movement was the so-called "Human Be-In" a San Francisco psychadelic festival organized by Jewish underground newspaper publisher Allen Cohen. Jewish singers such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle helped to lure American young people into the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll hippie lifestyle with their music. The four main organizers of the 1969 Woodstock Festival concert were all Jewish, as was Max Yasgur, the man on whose farm the legendary concert took place. |
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