Jews and Blacks still are working together, says Carolyn Goodman, mother of Andrew Goodman, the civil rights worker who was killed by white supremacists 23 years ago in Meridian, Miss. Carolyn Goodman was guest of honor Sunday night at the opening mass meeting of the 78th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held here at the Sheraton Centre and the Hilton hotels.
Goodman said that the media built up divisions between Blacks and Jews that aren’t really there. “I don’t think there’s a rift,” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I know many Jewish people who work for Black issues. I think there have been reports of rifts because of certain tensions that have arisen, but I don’t think relations between Blacks and Jews are any worse than in the 1960’s.”
NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks promised that the NAACP would do all it could to fight the nomination of Federal Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
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