Two national agencies involved in the civil rights struggle, the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress, went on record this weekend in full support of the report of the President’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and called for its immediate implementation.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, of Cleveland, president of the American Jewish Congress, said that all Americans “must accept the necessity of making the sacrifices that the Commission’s programs will entail.” He warned that failure to act now “would not only deny the slum dwellers of our cities of any hope for a better future but would also condemn the whole of our society to witness the sundering of American democracy.”
Bertram H. Gold, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, said all members of the committee were being urged “to promote in every possible way the fullest public understanding of the issues” and the Kerner Commission’s recommendations. He reported that his organization had sent a report on mass media and race relations to key communications executives throughout the country and was shortly publishing a handbook on “the police on the urban frontier.”
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