WHAT WENT WRONG: The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish From: Jewish Exponent | Date: March 31, 1995| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Jack Fischel
Jewish Exponent
03-31-1995
WHAT WENT WRONG: The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance.

WHAT WENT WRONG: The creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance, by Murray Friedman, with the assistance of Peter Binzen. Free Press, 450 pages, $24.95.

There is little argument that since the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909, Jews have played an important role in the struggle for civil rights in America.

The Brown case of 1954 is unimaginable without factoring in the pioneering work of Jews such as Joel and Arthur Spingarn, ...

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