Skip to Main Content

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.

Programming

The Freedom Seder 49 Years Later with Arthur Waskow

Being Heumann with Judy Heumann

Jewish lawyers and the Civil Rights Movement 

Panel discussion that explored the Jewish community's involvement in this important historical movement in the United States. Panelists included: Jack Greenberg, Alphonse Fletcher Jr., Professor of Law at Columbia University; Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Anne Roiphe, an American Jewish journalist and author for civil rights and Jewish relations with other communities.