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How did American Jews contribute to the civil rights movement?

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Defending the Rights of Religious Minorities

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Defending the Rights of Religious Minorities

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We must always—especially in times of controversy—vigilantly uphold our core values. When we violate one group’s religious freedom, everyone’s liberty is at stake.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/religious-liberty/free-exercise-religion/defending-rights-religious-minorities

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"March for Racial Justice on Yom Kippur"

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"March for Racial Justice on Yom Kippur"

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The March for Racial Justice chose a day in the Jewish calendar that Jewish people cannot participate in. "You have effectively turned your March for Justice, into a monumental act of injustice against the Jewish people"- Jewish Press
https://motl.org/march-of-the-living-apology-isnt-enough-march-for-racial-justice-on-yom-kippur-is-monumental-injustice-against-jews/

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To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a major example of religious discrimination and minority.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

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In your opinion, have minority religious rights improved? Has the discrimination stopped?

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What are 2 prominent groups that are part of the movement?

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A minority religion is a religion held by a minority of the population of a country, state, or region. Minority religions may be subject to stigma or discrimination. Some of these religions include, Muslims and Jews. This padlet will focus on the history of Jewish Minority Rights. As well as how mentioned organizations have helped other minorities throughout history.

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Chicago attorney Sigmund Livingston founded ADL in 1913. Their mission is to "To stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all..."
https://www.adl.org/who-we-are/our-mission

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Shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were murdered and six more were injured, is believed to be the deadliest attack against the American Jewish community in U.S. history
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/brief-history-anti-semitic-violence-america/574228/

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Testified before the Arkansas Senate against pending segregationist bills. He also became leader of the state’s largest Reform Jewish congregation.
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1755

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Created the Kivie Kaplan Seminar (now called Machon Kaplan), a summer work/study program in social action for college students. Kivie Kaplan was also involved in Jewish affairs and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (U.A.H.C.). He was a member of the U.A.H.C.'s Executive Committee as well as its Social Action Commission.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0026/ms0026.html

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Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism 

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Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism 

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The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (the RAC) has been the hub of Jewish social justice work for nearly 6 decades. The RAC mobilizes around federal, state, and local legislation; supports and develops congregational leaders; and organizes communities to create a world overflowing with justice, compassion, and peace.
https://rac.org/history-rac-timeline

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American Jews played a significant role in the founding and funding of some of the most important civil rights organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
https://rac.org/history-rac-timeline

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Jews made up half of the young people who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. Freedom summer was a larger effort to expand black voting in the South.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/reading-freedom-summer/

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Jewish leaders were arrested while heeding a call from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in St. Augustine, Florida in June 1964, where the largest mass arrest of rabbis in American history took place at the Monson Motor Lodge. This is only one example of jewish support to the civil rights movement.
https://rac.org/rac-and-civil-rights-movement