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- Title
A Sort of Jewish-Black Alliance: The Early History of the NAACP in Minneapolis.
- Authors
Bachrach, Deborah Y.
- Abstract
This article details a small but significant response to the growing racial violence in the United States in the early twentieth century. A group of social activists sought to form a national, bi-racial organization (NAACP) to use the American legal system to address the growing intolerance in the country, which was a hallmark of the Progressive Era. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city already significantly wracked by both racial violence and religious intolerance, opposition was particularly vociferous. Nevertheless, through the tireless efforts of a tiny cadre of well-educated, professional, Black men and the fearless resolve of a single white man in the city, Rabbi Samuel N. Deinard, a man long dedicated to the equality of all people before the law, the bi-racial requirement for membership in the Minneapolis NAACP chapter was achieved in 1914, with Deinard as its first president.
- Subjects
MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.); NATIONAL Association for the Advancement of Colored People; BLACK-Jewish relations; RACE riots; ACTIVISTS
- Publication
Western States Jewish History (0749-5471), 2020, Vol 51, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0749-5471
- Publication type
Article