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Jewish Groups Join in National Civil Rights Conference

February 18, 1952
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Jewish organizations will join with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week-end in a conference on civil rights initiated by the N.A.A.C.P. and co-sponsored by 50 national church, labor, fraternal, civic, and minority organizations. The conference will seek to advance civil rights and revise Senate rules to make it possible to get effective action on fair employment legislation and laws for the protection of minority groups.

Senate sponsors of a more liberal cloture rule will participate. Jewish groups represented included the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, National Council of Jewish Women, and the National Community Relations Advisory Council. Senators scheduled to address the gathering include Herbert H. Lehman, Irving M. Ives, Robert C. Hendrickson, Hubert Humphrey, and William Benton.

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