Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle

The struggle for equal rights in America forged a close connection between African Americans and Jews. But in recent years that once amicable relationship has become strained. In Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle (winner of the National Jewish Book Awards), young people will discover how much the shared history of both groups unites rather than divides them.

At the height of the civil rights battles of the 1960s, Jewish students, rabbis, and community leade...