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Subject Guide: Civil Rights

Archival and library highlights found at the Center that illuminate the Jewish contributions and collaborations in ensuring equal rights for all.

Banner reads "A J Congress Protects the Rights of Jews in All Lands!" at the National Convention, Women's Division, 1953. I-77. AJHS

Library Highlights

Civil Rights in Immigration / Milton R. Konvitz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1953.

The Constitution and Civil Rights / by Milton R. Konvitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1947.

Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey / Martin Duberman. New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 1991.

Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech / Victoria Saker Woeste. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement / Joyce Antler. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Jewish Summer Camping and Civil Rights: How Summer Camps Launched a Transformation in American Jewish Culture / Ann Arbor: The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 2006.

The Quest for the Dream: The Development of Civil Rights and Human Relations in Modern America / John P. Roche (John Pearson). New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Reconciliations of a Gay Jewish German ‘Real American’ / Rick Landman. New York City, 2007.

Reports from the Holocaust: the Making of an AIDS Activist / Larry Kramer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath / Bob Blauner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Scientific Freedom and Human Rights: Scientists of Conscience During the Cold War / by Jack Minker. Computer Society; CS Press, 2012.

American Jewish Congress member holding sign at Montgomery March. I-77. AJHS.

Civil Rights Movement

Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights / Clive Webb. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

From Hamburg to Little Rock and Beyond: The Origins of Georg Iggers's Civil Rights Activism / David A. Gerber. Hagen: Margit Rottmann Medienverlag,1991.

Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement / Debra L. Schultz ; Foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle / Norman H. Finkelstein. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997.

The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s / Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Judaic Studies Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation / Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. New York: Knopf, 2006.

A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees / Morris Dees with Steve Fiffer. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.

Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community / Rabbi Marc Schneier; Preface by Martin Luther King III. 1st ed. Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights, 1999.

Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi / Tracy Sugarman. Foreword by Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.

Step by Step: Evolution and Operation of the Cornell Students' Civil-Rights Project in Tennessee, Summer, 1964 / by Fayette County Project Volunteers. New York: Published for the Fayette County Fund by W. W. Norton, 1965.

The Temple Bombing / Melissa Fay Greene. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement / P. Allen Krause; edited by Mark K. Bauman with Stephen Krause. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2016.