A Negro civil rights leader told a Jewish audience here yesterday that the extent of anti-Semitism in the Negro community has been “greatly exaggerated.” James Farmer, former national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, said that Negro anti-Semitism was only one manifestation of growing anti-white sentiment in the black community that is directed “against whites who are the most obvious and visible.” Sometimes this happens to be Jews and at other times different ethnic groups, Mr. Farmer said in a speech at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. “There is no more anti-Semitism in the black community than in the white community,” he added.
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