The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Debra L. Schultz

After a career in international human rights, Dr. Debra L. Schultz teaches civil rights and women’s history at the City University of New York. She is the author of Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement (NYU Press) and is currently researching public memory of the civil rights movement.

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Hillel Professionals at an "Inter Racial Conference" at the Southeastern Hillel Conference, 1948

Civil Rights Movement in the United States

As part of the Black-Jewish civil rights alliance and rooted in twentieth-century political, cultural and gender dynamics, Jewish women’s activism took many forms. Jewish women contributed as professionals, through Jewish and women’s organizations, and as foot soldiers in the movement’s nonviolent direct action organizations such as CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) and SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).