NCJW Efforts on Behalf of Civil Rights
Ties to regional, national, and international NCJW and Hadassah gave New Orleans Jewish women a wide perspective on race relations. Travel and connection to larger networks pushed the women to act more boldly than many of their peers, and to work across the color line, often enduring a cold wind from within the Jewish community as well as late night threatening phone calls from segregationists and white citizen council members. Early in the century, experiences of discrimination as Jews also made women empathetic to the plight of African Americans. By the 1960s, NCJW led their own Jewish community as well as many other progressive people in the city in addressing issues on prejudice, voting rights, and economic inequalities.
Discussion Group on Prejudice
Newspaper article from NCJW Scrapbook, Undated, ca. 1968. Flo Schornstein and others. National Council of Jewish Women, Greater New Orleans Section records, Collection 667, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.
Activity Cues on Voting Rights and Other Issues, National NCJW, 1965
National Council of Jewish Women, Greater New Orleans Section records, Collection 667, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.
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