Did the Southerners in the 1960s see Jewish people as colored?

The Jewish community was strongly involved in the civil rights movement. Racists often baited protesters as "Jew controlled" just like the KKK is doing right now with the young man murdered in Missouri. Most southern whites in the 1960s likely saw Jews as white, but still not like themselves. read more

Living through this turbulent and unstable era, Henderson tried to understand why his skin color made people treat him differently. During the 1960s he looked for answers in the Nation of Islam, the U.S. Army and the Philadelphia Police Department. read more

Since the 1960s, social activism in southern religion largely has passed from the civil rights coalition, whose primary focus was racial justice in the South, to the religious right, seen in the rise of figures such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Ralph Reed. read more