The Nation - News from Nov. 29, 1988
Civil rights leader James Farmer said that blacks and Jews should keep working together for the “colorblind and religion-blind” society that was the original goal of the civil rights movement. Farmer, 68, former president of the Congress for Racial Equality, was one of 100 black and Jewish activists attending a two-day seminar at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center at Atlanta. “The Black and Jewish Alliance: Reunion and Renewal,” is focusing on social, legislative and judicial activity since the NAACP was formed in 1909.
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