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Spingarn Brothers - White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Hardcover)
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Spingarn Brothers - White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Hardcover)
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An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves
to the struggle for racial equality in the United States. In the
late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New
York City as brothers with very different personalities, interests,
and professional goals. Joel was impetuous and high-spirited;
Arthur was reasoned and studious. Yet together they would become
essential leaders in the struggle for racial justice and equality,
serving as presidents of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, exposing inequities, overseeing key
court cases, and lobbying presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to
John F. Kennedy. In The Spingarn Brothers, Katherine Reynolds
Chaddock sheds new light on the story of these fascinating brothers
and explores how their Jewish heritage and experience as
second-generation immigrants led to their fight for racial
equality. Upon graduating from Columbia University, Arthur joined a
top Manhattan law practice, while Joel became a professor of
comparative literature. The two soon witnessed growing racial
injustices in the city and joined the NAACP in 1909, its founding
year. Arthur began to aim his legal practice toward issues of
discrimination, while Joel founded the NAACP's New York City
branch. Drawing from personal letters, journals, and archives,
Chaddock uncovers some of the motivations and influences that
guided the Spingarns. Both brothers served in World War I, married,
and pursued numerous interests that ranged from running for
Congress to collecting rare books and manuscripts by Black authors
around the world. In this dual biography, Chaddock illustrates how
the Spingarn brothers' unique personalities, Jewish heritage, and
family history shaped their personal and professional lives into an
ongoing fight for racial justice.
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