January 20 at 1:42pm;
"I need to return to our Civil Rights Museum because I cannot recall how the role Jews of Greensboro is presented, as a vital component of the Movement, beginning in the 1930s and thereafter with Rabbis Rypins, Asher and Task.
With the help of influential Jews, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban League grew. Of course, fighting systemic and institutional racism takes a village of all civil, right-minded moral people, no matter race, culture or creed!
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Then, David Brantly Craft writes something he deleted in response, to which Ivan replies;
Ivan Saul Cutler
"David B. Craft, so what if Jews fought for the Confederacy? It is irrelevant to the role of the Jews as a major ally and force for Civil Rights Movement of the Twentieth Century."
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David Brantly Craft posted a link to "More Than 10,000 Jews
Fought For The Confederacy" in response, which includes;
"...thousands of black Americans fought as Johnny Rebs.
"over 3,000 negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie knives, dirks, etc. And were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army."
There also were Hispanic Confederates.
...Gen. Robert E. Lee allowed his Jewish soldiers to observe all holy days, while Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman issued anti-Jewish orders.
http://www.rense.com/general26/morethan10000.htm
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Considering David "Brantley" Craft's comments on Charles "Brantley" Aycock, White Supremacist and North Carolina governor from 1901 to 1905, David seems to have issues with those who don't like his narrow view of history;
On the whole Aycock contributed much more
to the betterment of our state.
His contributions to education
far out shadow his racist inclinations.
I say the name stays.
Greater Greensboro Politics
January 15, 2015, at 7:12am
"We must disfranchise the negro.
To do so is both desirable and necessary
desirable because it sets the white man
free to move along faster than he can go
when retarded by the slower movement of the negro."
Charles Brantley Aycock
Acceptance speech for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination
April, 1900
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"Little reference now to the plethora of white college students from UNCG (Women's College) who were at Woolworths the very next day after the lunch counter sit-in to support those 4 men ... I know some women who were there for support, and they say it was a "sea" of white folks there to show they agreed with the actions the men had taken...."
William Courter
Greater Greensboro Politics
David "Brantley" Craft's comments at "Guarino;
"The Aycock name: Time for a change";
"Billy Graham held segregated crusades in his early years.
We forgive him for that.
Charles [Brantley] Aycock brought education to the masses.
He was a man of his time.
We can forgive him for his segregationist views."
David Craft says: February 15, 2013 at 8:53 AM
“While Jews constituted a majority of those Freedom Riders who were not black, there is scant or no mention of our participation in the struggle,” says Ralph D. Fertig, a native Chicagoan who as a 31-year-old father of three, participated in that historic challenge to segregation. Still, by their actions, Jews wrote an important chapter in the civil rights saga and left an indelible legacy for future generations.
As the anniversaries are marked, “people should know that blacks and Jews worked separately and together,” says Julian Bond, a prominent black civil rights leader who went on to serve in the Georgia legislature and as president of the NAACP. “We should remember the time we shared in the movement, and that we did so many positive things for this country.”
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"When the call went out in the summer of 1961 for volunteers to ride buses throughout the South to help integrate public transportation, a large percentage of the people who made a commitment to take on this dangerous assignment were Jews. To be exact, nearly two-thirds of the Freedom Riders were Jewish which is “quite an amazing feat for a minority which made up less than 2% of the entire American population” (Weinblatt 5). Although Jews and African Americans are two very distinct, and often opposing, cultural groups in our society, the great struggle to end racism in America meshed these two groups tightly together."
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"Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
...Southern states had effectively disfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites in the period from 1890 to 1910 by passing state constitutions, amendments and other laws that imposed burdens on voter registration: charging poll taxes, requiring literacy tests administered subjectively by white registrars, making residency requirements more difficult, as well as record keeping to document required items. They maintained this exclusion from politics into the 1960s.
...Well over 1,000 out-of-state volunteers participated in Freedom Summer alongside thousands of black Mississippians. Most of the volunteers were young, most of them from the North, 90 percent were white, and many were Jewish.
Over the course of the ten-week project:
1,062 people were arrested (out-of-state volunteers and locals)
80 Freedom Summer workers were beaten
37 churches were bombed or burned
30 Black homes or businesses were bombed or burned
4 civil rights workers were killed (one in a head-on collision)
4 people were critically wounded
At least 3 Mississippi blacks were murdered
because of their support for the Civil Rights Movement"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer
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"Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
...Southern states had effectively disfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites in the period from 1890 to 1910 by passing state constitutions, amendments and other laws that imposed burdens on voter registration: charging poll taxes, requiring literacy tests administered subjectively by white registrars, making residency requirements more difficult, as well as record keeping to document required items. They maintained this exclusion from politics into the 1960s.
We must disfranchise the negro.
To do so is both desirable and necessary
desirable because it sets the white man
free to move along faster than he can go
when retarded by the slower movement of the negro.
Charles Brantley Aycock,
supported by David Brantley Craft
Acceptance speech for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination
April, 1900
...Well over 1,000 out-of-state volunteers participated in Freedom Summer alongside thousands of black Mississippians. Most of the volunteers were young, most of them from the North, 90 percent were white, and many were Jewish.
Over the course of the ten-week project:
1,062 people were arrested (out-of-state volunteers and locals)
80 Freedom Summer workers were beaten
37 churches were bombed or burned
30 Black homes or businesses were bombed or burned
4 civil rights workers were killed (one in a head-on collision)
4 people were critically wounded
At least 3 Mississippi blacks were murdered
because of their support for the Civil Rights Movement"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer
