Whatever anti-Semitic quotient exists in the new Negro militancy is “tragically misguided” because American Jews and their organizations have played a major role in helping to bring about the progress the United States has made toward “equal opportunity for all, ” Dore Schary, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, told a meeting of the League’s national executive committee held here today.
He said that the American Jewish community, particularly since the Hitler holocaust, has thrown “much of its energy and ideological strength into the fight for democracy for all as the one assurance of security for itself. ” He cited organized Jewish efforts in support of “the spread of human relations councils after World War II, education for FEPC and other types of civil rights legislation, and in the development of intercultural and human relations education nationally” as factors that have brought the Negro to his improved status today.
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