The Jewish Monitor, the only Jewish publication in Alabama, said editorially that the only solution to the South’s racial problems would be “within the structure of constitutionality which shapes and unifies the American nation.”
The editorial stated that most Birmingham citizens were in support of the Senior Citizens committee, which has been negotiating with Negro leaders to achieve a settlement of Negro demands and its counterpart in the colored community. “The solution will come, must come from efforts such as theirs,” the editorial stressed.
The editorial was critical of the 19 rabbis who left a Rabbinical Assembly of America convention last month to come en masse to Birmingham to demonstrate their support of the Negro struggle in that city against segregation without first consulting the Jewish community leaders in Birmingham.
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