Exhibit details partnership between Jews and Blacks in shared struggle for Civil Rights
The Museum’s display recounts the unified efforts made by American Jews and African Americans to fight for equality before and during Milwaukee’s Open Housing Marches of 1967-1968. Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights, on view until March 25 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, explores the power of partnerships through shared projects and organizational efforts, and how many members of the African American and Jewish communities became allied against injustice. In connection to the exhibit, Jewish Museum Milwaukee assembled a committee of local African American and Jewish leaders, educators and former Civil Rights activists...
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