The Relationship Between American Jews And Black Civil Right Movement

American Jews and Black Civil Right Movement
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American Jews and Black Civil Right Movement
As a minority group in the American society, Jews have been free from the mainstream Christian white system for a long time. The anti-semitism waves in the United States in the early 20th century has greatly impacted Jews. As the minority with the largest population in the United States, African American people suffered from the oppression of racial discrimination and apartheid for a long time, and their social status was extremely low. Since the 1950 s, in order to strive for equal rights of ethnic minorities, and the dominance and spread of African American civil rights movements in the United States, where American Jews are actively involved, some Jewish organizations, Jewish leaders, the black population in their run for promoting judicial reforms and social justice, they have played an important role. Moreover, the cooperation will involve black civil rights movement to a climax, this age also known as the "golden age" where the two big groups get along. After the cooperation achieved a series of judicial results, the contradiction between the two ethnic groups, which was concealed outside the cooperative appearance, was rapidly intensified, and the ethnic relations between Jews and blacks went from sincere cooperation to separatist confrontation. The accumulative literature review on the features of intergroup relations between the Jews and the African Americans yield the argument that the attitudes of each group towards each other is complex as well as their relationship is complicated characterized with cooperation and conflict.
The complexity of the relations between the Jews and the Blacks is caused by the different comparative frameworks that led to their alliance. These frameworks include the similarity of the problem and the history of oppression and discrimination that the two groups faced while under the colonial and the American rule. Therefore, basically, there are three distinct aspects to review the relations between the Jews and the Blacks in their civil rights movements (Adams, 2001). These aspects are memory, ideology and sociology where memory stands for the numerous accounts of past discrimination, oppression and other painful experiences that both groups encountered during their stay in the United States of America. This concept was used by the leaders of the Jews and the Blacks to carefully identify and stress the many similarities that existed between them and to create a genuine reason as to why they should form an alliance to monitor their stay and ensure that the government appreciated the adoption of a comfortable society. The concept of ideology narrowed to the ideological differences and similarities that existed between the two groups in terms of religion and politics while the complex aspect of sociology refers and deals with the fact that even after the two groups had formed political alliances and civil rights movements, there was some kind of forced friendship and pretentious love between them and in a social neighborhood comprising the Jews, no Blacks were allowed in the mid-1920s and 1930s.
The two groups migrated in to the United...