Were the Jews supporting civil rights movement..?

Question

I was just wondering if Jews were against or with blacks when the blacks were fighting for their rights?
Or are the jews racist towards blacks like many whites were in the 50's and 60's?

Answer 1

Right there, arm in arm. Abraham Joshua Heschel, an amazing Jewish philosopher, theologian and rabbi, was in the front line in the Selma march.

He said that he was 'praying with his feet.'

Answer 2

The Jews and the African Americans have faced many of the same problems of prejudice, and cruelty. The Jews were 100 percent for the civil rights movement.

Answer 3

Jews are people so they did what people do, they decided based on their own volition.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that Jews were and are very much at the forefront of the civil rights movement.

Much of the KKK/Democrat Party anti-civil rights propaganda refers to "Jews" and "Jew-Lawyers" being responsible for making "Ni**ers uppity".

This data is available on line although, like data on the New York City "Draft riots" it tends to be twisted to be anti-Republican by left wingers.

Just like the "Draft Riots" where you can find still anecdotal accounts and news paper reports of Democrats inciting the lynchings of blacks in the streets of New York you can find images of Democrat party/KKK pamphlets deriding Jews and Blacks and requesting people vote for Democrats, mostly New York city and Chicago Democrats since these cities had large populations of Democrats and abundant printing facilities.

Current anecdotal evidence is the common term, often used in a derogatory manner, "Jew ACLU lawyer", the ACLU being an organization that commonly supports civil rights.

Answer 4

Well, number one, we can start off by saying that the vast majority of Ashkenazim Jews (Jews from Central/Eastern Europe - which make up more than 90% of American Jews) immigrated to America from Europe via Ellis Island in NYC (which my relatives did also)...so they MOSTLY lived in NYC, which didn't have Jim Crowe laws....there were still some Jews in the South, but not much.

During the civil rights era there were a lot of Northerners that came down to the South where they had the Jim Crowe laws to march alongside civil rights leaders - they were called freedom riders.....I dunno the percentage of Jews that were freedom riders, but apparently it was enough that the KKK took notice and they started bombing synagogues and killed some Jewish freedom riders (one incident was made into a movie called "Mississippi burning)
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Answer 5

I believe that Jews generally sympathised with the blacks. I mean, it makes sense- we know how bad it is to be persecuted, so we usually side with the underdog. Jews are often at the forefront of human-rights issues- today, a good number of Darfur activists are Jewish.

Answer 6

Rabbi A.J. Heschel marched with them, and many, many Jewish lawyers worked for them in the courts.

Jews were persecuted in the South right along with the blacks. Neighborhood signs were posted that said: "No Jews, No N..s," No dogs."
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Answer 7

A couple of them were killed in MS because of their civil rights activities... Google Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner

Answer 8

Absolutely for. Period, end of sentence.

Answer 9

A lot of the original slave owners where Jewish, it makes no differance what they did during the 1960's what matters is what they did during the early 1800's