David E. Lowe: Touched with Fire

Tue. Nov 17, 2020 at 1:30pm EST
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David E. Lowe: Touched with Fire

David E. Lowe


Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination


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From a childhood spent in a rural Georgia town with twelve Jewish families, Morris B. Abram rose to the leadership of the American Jewish community. He used the additional platforms afforded him, including official roles at the United Nations under three U.S. presidents, to speak out on behalf of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain and to call out the UN’s relentless bullying of the Jewish state of Israel. Sadly, most Americans have never heard of Abram, the courageous southern lawyer who played a major role during the height of Jim Crow segregation, in unmasking the Ku Klux Klan, facilitating the release of Dr. Martin Luther King from prison prior to the 1960 presidential election, and ending Georgia’s racially discriminatory electoral system. His lengthy battle against that system resulted in the Supreme Court’s path-breaking “one person, one vote” ruling. While telling an extraordinary personal story, Touched with Fire opens a window into many of the leading issues of our era: civil rights, antisemitism, black-Jewish relations, the struggle for Soviet Jewry, affirmative action, and international human rights.


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