Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward
African-Americans, Hasia Diner shows how - in the wake of the Leo
Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their
relative prosperity was no protection against the same social
forces that threatened blacks. It thus became in the Jewish
American self-interest to support the black struggle for racial
justice and to fight against American prejudice. Jewish leaders and
organisations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil
rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of
advancing their own interests without seeming "pushy" or "too
demanding" - launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they
felt had not lived up to its own pronouncements of freedom and
equality.
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