The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990sMark K. Bauman, Berkley Kalin These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction Individually, each essay offers a glimpse into both the private and public difficulties these rabbis faced in their struggle to achieve good. Collectively, the essays provide an unparalleled picture of Jewish leadership during the civil rights era. |
Contents
Genesis | 19 |
Morris Newfield Alabama and Blacks 18951940 | 39 |
Fineshriber in Memphis | 50 |
The Heyday | 65 |
Civil and Social Rights Efforts of Arkansas Jewry | 95 |
Harmonizing in Texas | 121 |
Rabbi David Jacobson and the Integration | 135 |
Rabbi James A | 152 |
Charles Mantinband | 213 |
What Price Amos? Perry Nussbaums Career | 230 |
Memoirs | 259 |
The Norfolk Story | 286 |
A Personal Memoir | 311 |
Afterword | 323 |
Notes | 339 |
Contributors | 423 |
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