Rockwell Warned on Civil Rights; Anti-Semites Rebuked
(Continued from Page 5) "inadequate or distorted por- March, urged that Jews "stand coin Memorial, a monument to Constitutional Amendments, the
the man who a century ago battles of Reconstruction and
of any NAACP official—local, trayal in religious textbooks, of side by side with their Negro first put forth the concept of the struggles, up to the present,
fellow-Americans
and
march
to-
the
Negro,
the
Catholic,
the
regional or national."
that have been brought to the
Protestant and the Jew." The gether for full equality in a free equality to save the Union.
Birmingham Jews in 'Vise'
nation's courts of law.
society."
The
growth
of
that
concept,
process of correcting such por-
Between Negroes,
within Abraham Lincoln's phil-
trayals, he asserted, could be
He
said
the
American
Jewish
Segregationists
osophy, and its evolution to this MID-AMERICA'S
"vastly augmented" by a com-
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The mission of specialists in the Congress was chartering special day, are examined by Supreme
4,000 Jews of Birmingham, Ala- fields of teaching training, text- buses to take its delegation to Court Justice William 0. Doug-
bama, are living in a vise of book writing and religious edu- Washington, where members and las in his new book, "Mr. Lin-
pressures from both whites and cation could meet regularly to officers of the organization from coln and the Negroes: The Long
throughout the metropolitan area
Negroes in the broiling civic act on the problem.
would participate in the demon- Road to Equality," which Ath-
rights struggle of that southern
stration. Additional AJCongress eneum will publish on Sept. 16.
OcesTtot
city, according to a Bit ingham American Jewry Is Urged by
"The modern idea of equali-
Po":
groups from Boston, Philadelphia
Jewish communal official. Har- Jewish Congress I Lesident to
ty,"
says
Justice
Douglas,
"has
and other cities in the East
old E. Katz, executive director Back March on Washington
Sept. 3-Jan. .1
grown from the seed beds of
NEW YORK—Rabbi Joachim would also join the March, he
of the Jewish Community Coun-
Lincoln's philosophy." Begin-
Per
From $ 1 0 Day
Prinz,
president
of
the
Ameri-
said.
cil and Jewish Center in Bir-
ning with the debates of the
American Plan!
mingham, outlined the plight of can Jewish Congress, called on
1850s, Justice Douglas traces
• Overwhelming
Birmingham's Jews at a meet- the U.S. Jewish community to
Beauty • Carefree
the growth of that idea through
Douglas on Negroes
support
the
March
on
Washing-
Informality
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Conditioned Rooms
On Wednesday, the march of the Civil War to the Emancipa-
of the Anti-Defamation League ton as a "Mitzvah" (command-
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Proclamation
and
the
Sec-
Sports
ment) in keeping with the high- thousands of Negroes and whites ond Inaugural address. The
of Bnai Brith.
Sparkling Heated "Dream" Pool
Jewish downtown merchants, est ethical principles of Judaism. on the nation's capitol to de- Emancipation Proclamation, in Free Star-Studded Floor Shows
Rabbi Prinz, of Newark, N.J., mand full equality for the Ne- the words of Justice Douglas,
FREE GOLF
he said, are the target of Negro
NEW COCKTAIL LOUNGE
a
founding
co-chairman of the gro will culminate at the Lin- "like the Magna Charta, became
agitation because many of the
Reservations
Today
Make
city's 250,000 Negroes-40 • per
in time a symbol of freedom
cent of the total population—
FIDELMAN'S
and equality which was no part
South Haven, Michigan
feel that the merchants exploit
of it in the beginning." He
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them as customers and discrimi-
traces the difficult road past the
nate against them as employes.
On the other hand, many segre-
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By MITZI RACHLEFF
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gationists charge that Jews are
Detroiter Susan Wender has days in the city jail. Her crime
the instigators of the demon- discovered what it is like to was to walk down the street
strations which have repeatedly live in a state of fear after two notifying people of a mass
w mA re s
PAM
rocked Birmingham, Katz re- years of comfort and security emergency meeting that eve-
ported. Segregationists also fear at the University of Michigan. ning, to inform them of police
that Jewish merchants will be
Susan, 19, now lives in Daw- beatings and arrests of demon-
thaw
the first to yield to Negro de-
strators earlier that day.
mands for integration of their son, Ga., where, at any time,
PONTIACXIICHIGAN
she says, "the room I'm sitting
Rather than seek sympathy
stores.
in might be shot at." For for her weeklong imprisonment,
DODGE - DART
Rabbi Appeals to Catholic Youth Susan, a member of SNICK, Susan explains that it's all part
DODGE TRUCK
to Join Washington March
the Student Nonviolent Coor- of Snick's purpose. She says:
BARNEY TEAL
PAUL NEWMAN
LORETTO, Pa. (JTA) — An dinating Committee, it is no
Sates Mgr
338-4541
Prestaent
"There are two things to
appeal to Catholic youth to join sacrifice to act in accordance
'-HOUSE
SERVICE
-IS
be
changed.
By
talking,
we
with their Protestant and Jew- with her beliefs.
must awaken Negroes to their
ish counterparts in the August
The SNCC is a movement lawful rights. Recently I
28 March on Washington was
to overcoming racial have been working on voter
made" by a rabbi at the Youth dedicated
prejudice
and discrimination registration. I've spoken to
Congress of the Third Order St. by changing
society. Its mem- Negroes who have been told
Francis.
Addressing GOO Catholic bers, devoted to this cause, have for over 100 years that vot-
youth, Rabbi Marc H. Tanen- not let fear replace their cour- ing is none of their business.
We must also change the
baum, director of the Inter-re- age, she says.
structure of society by doing,
As a student at U. of M.,
ligious Affairs Department of
demonstrating, going to jail
the American Jewish Committee, Susan was sensitive to the
and making demands instead
declared that "Catholic, Protes- importance of the civil rights
of asking nicely."
tant and Jewish youth have an issue. "I felt it was my duty
Susan rarely walks alone in
unparalleled opportunity to give to do all I could," she says.
Reserve Now For The
THE YEAR AROUND
AT
vivid prophetic witness to their Susan became treasurer of Georgia, out of fear. "I have
HIGH HOLY DAYS
not
met
a
single
sympathetic
the
"U
of
M
Friends
of
faith by taking part in this de-
GROSSINGER
Telephone: LIBERTY (N.Y.) 960
monstration of the moral com- Snick," a group which ran white person," states Susan.
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in N. Y. City: LO 5-4500
mitment of Americans to equal bi-weekly news bulletins "Even educated Negroes,
opportunity for all our citizens." keeping people informed of preachers and schoolteachers,
The Third Order is one of the developments relating to the do not work for the movement
world's largest lay orders of Negro strife, in the South, out of fear of losing their jobs."
How do Susan's parent s,
and raised money to aid their
the Catholic Church.
Rabbi Tanenbaum told the cause. Her sister, Laurie, 21, Irma and Max Wender, feel
youth leaders they could use is co-chairman of the organ- about their daughter's activi-
ties? "They want me to go
their own purchasing power in ization this year.
Susan has been working in back to school," says Susan.
the fight for civil rights. He said
the American teen-age popula- the South since June. Shortly "Otherwise, they're for it, just
tion controls earnings and al- after her arrival in Albany, worried about my getting into
lowances totaling $6,300,000 a Ga., she was arrested on charges jail."
year and he urged that youth
use that purchasing power to
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Earlier in the week Rabbi (Whom Roger Graig called the is that Bobby may shortly be- circulation and . gives you sparkling new
Tanenbaum spoke at the fifth best receiver he has ever had) come the best chess player in heauty. Now you are ready to join in the
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