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King because he feared his own
[false] reputation as a communist
might adversely affect King's cause.
Yet he continued to funnel information
to the civil rights movement for years
to come).
On Monday, Jan. 15, we observe
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Here,
in his own words, are Rev. King's
thoughts on Jews:

have aided and comforted my Jewish
brothers."
(Source.' Martin -=Luther King Jr.'s April
16, 1963, "Letter from Birmingham
Jail," mailed to clergymen throughout
the country)

• "The limited degree of Negro
: anti-Semitism is substantially a North-
ern ghetto phenomenon; it virtually
does not exist in the South. The
• "How could there be anti-Semi-
urban Negro has a special and
: tism among Negroes when our Jew-
unique relationship to Jews. He
ish friends have demonstrated their
meets them in two dissimilar roles.
commitment to the principle of toter-
On the one hand, he is associated
: ance and brotherhood not only in
with Jews as some of his most com-
the form of sizable contributions, but mitted and generous partners in the
in many other tangible ways, and
civil rights struggle. On the other
often at great personal sacrifice.
hand, he meets them daily as some
Can we ever express our apprecia-
of his most direct exploiters in the
tion to the rabbis who chose to give
ghetto as slum landlords and goug-
moral witness with us in St. Augus-
ing shopkeepers. Jews have identi-
tine during our recent protest
fied with Negroes voluntarily in the
against segregation in that unhappy
freedom movement, motivated by
city?
their religious and cultural commit-
"Need I remind anyone of the awful
ment to justice. The other Jews who
beating suffered by Rabbi Arthur
are engaged in commerce in the
Lelyveld of Cleveland when he joined
ghettos are remnants of older com-
the civil rights workers there in Hatties-
munities.
burg, Miss.? And who can ever for
"A great number of Negro ghettos
get the sacrifice of two Jewish lives,
were formerly Jewish neighbor-
Andrew Goodman and Michael
hoods; some storekeepers and land-
Schwerner, in the swamps of Missis-
lords remained as population
sippi?
il It would be impossible to
changes occurred. They operate
record the contribution that the Jewish
with the ethics of marginal business
people have made toward the
entrepreneurs, not Jewish ethics, but
Negro's struggle for freedom — it has
the distinction is lost on some
been so great."
Negroes who are maltreated by
(Source: A Testament of Hope: The
them. Such Negroes, caught in frus-
1 Essential Writings and Speeches of
tration and irrational anger, parrot
the Martin Luther King Jr., edited by
racial epithets. They foolishly add to
James Melvin Washington, copy-
the social poison that injures them-
right 1986)
selves and their own people.
"It would be a tragic and immoral
• "[Speaking on civil disobedience]
mistake to identify the mass of
... We should never forget that every-
Negroes with the very small number
thing Adolf Hitler did in Germany
that succumb to cheap and dishonest
was 'legal' and everything the Hun-
slogans, just as it would be a serious
garian freedom fighters did in Hun-
error to identify all Jews with the few
gary was 'illegal.' It was 'illegal' to
who exploit Negroes under their eco-
aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Ger-
nomic sway. Negroes cannot irra-
many. Even so, I am sure that, had I
tionally expect honorable Jews to
lived in Germany at the time, I would
curb the few who are rapacious; they