Black-Jewish Alliance

Black-Jewish Alliance

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

2015

Moshe Kornfield, Scott Meyer, Elias Sacks, Stephanie Yuhas, Andrew Violet, Jane Thaler

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Black-Jewish Alliance Initially, support for the civil rights movement was especially high among Jews. Famously, a leading American rabbi, Abraham Joshua Heschel, marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of the Selma Civil Rights March. However, by the late 1960s, the alliance between African-American and Jewish activists was fraying due to a variety of political, economic, and social factors. Jews for Urban Justice, an activist group in Washington, D.C., sought to reverse this trend.