Jewish activist communities have historically been allies to communities of color in the fight for racial justice and equality in our country. Jews were among those who worked to establish the NAACP in 1909. In the early 1900s, Jewish newspapers drew parallels between the Black movement out of the South and the Jews’ escape from Egypt, pointing out that both Blacks and Jews lived in ghettos, and calling anti-Black riots in the South “pogroms.” Historically, Jewish leaders stressed the similarities rather than the differences between the Jewish and Black experience in America, and emphasized the idea that both groups would benefit the more America moved toward a society of merit, free of religious, ethnic, and racial restrictions. In more recent history, Blacks and Jews fought side by side in the Civil Rights Movement. The kinship and relationship between the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel...
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January 01 2014
Trayvon Martin: Reflections on the Black and Jewish Struggle for Justice
Tikkun (2014) 29 (1): 14–21.
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Yavilah McCoy; Trayvon Martin: Reflections on the Black and Jewish Struggle for Justice. Tikkun 1 January 2014; 29 (1): 14–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2394398
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