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21. CORE: Samuel Markle to William Sachs, 28 December 1946, ADL Y 1946
nrp. All these organizations changed their minds after the fact and praised CORE's
effort. Black temporizing: for example, a 1944 NAACP resolution "urge[s] the Board
of Directors of the NAACP to adopt a program of action...for the purpose of eliminating
anti-Semitism among Negroes, and...discovering and eliminating anti-Negro
prejudice and practices...which foster anti-Semitism among Negroes." Resolutions
Adopted at the War-Time Conference, National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, Chicago, 12-16 July 1944, p. 12, NAACP II A 28. "The Urban
League has stated publicly its opposition to any campaign that is in the nature of an
attack against a whole race of people but at the same time has expressed its recogni-
tion of the fact that there might be certain unfair and over-reaching practices carried
on by Jewish merchants...which give rise to criticism and indignation." Earl
Dkkerson to White, 5 July 1938, NAACP I C 208. See also Cheryl Greenberg, "Class
Tensions and the Black-Jewish 'Alliance,'" OAH Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia,
April 1994.
22. Nathan Edelstein, "Jewish Relationship With the Emerging Negro
Community in the North, "Address to NJCRAC, 23 June I960, pp. 8-9, AJC VF
NJR: AJCong. He concluded that the imbalance should not deter Jews from embracing
the civil rights struggle. "Jews are dedicated to the cause of justice and equality
because it is best for all Americans."
23. Particularly since local Jews owning property in Miami's Black areas "share
the feelings of other southern whites." S. Andhil Fineberg to John Slawson, AJC,
Memorandum re "The Situation in Miami," 21 January 1951, p. 3, AJC VF
Community files.
24. White to Ben Epstein, 2 June 1949; Epstein to White, 9 June 1949, NAACP
II A 363. See also White's eulogy at Stephen Wise's memorial service, 25 May 1949,
pp. 11-13, NAACP II A 362. Miller: Alex Miller to Lou Novins, Memorandum re
"Negro-Jewish Relations," 16 August 1945, ADL Y 1945 nrp.
25. ADL: Richard Gutstadt to Paul Richman, 19{10?} August 1941; Berland to
Leonard Finder, 12 September 1941, Memorandum re "Article by Roy Wilkins (NY
Amst Star)," ADL Y 1941 nrp. Baltimore: quoted in Stanley Jacobs to ADL Staff,
Regional offices, CRCs, "Negro Press—Memo #2," 17 April 1942, p. 5, ADL Y 1942
nrp.
26. Berman: Minutes, AJCong Executive Committee, 11 December 1949, pp.
105-6. Brooklyn (Stanley Henderson): AJCong National Convention, 1956, Panel:
"Integration," 13 April 1956, p. 73, AJCong box "Nat'l Conventions 54-58."
27. Edelstein, pp. 4-5; White to Maslow, 10 December 1947, NAACP II A 360.
28. Edelstein, p. 6.
29- See, for example, Maslow, "The Advancement of Community Relations Ob-