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The hand of Esau : Montgomery's Jewish community and the 1955-56 bus boycott

"In 1955, the majority of Montgomery's Jews confounded Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by ignoring the Bus Boycott. The experience of the Jewish community during its first hundred years shaped its collective response to the Boycott; how the community dealt with this tension is the story of their Southern experience"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2006
1st ed
River City Pub., Montgomery, AL, 2006
History
194 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781579660413, 157966041X
68221153
Jewish Confederates and financiers
The congregations : Kahl Montgomery/Beth Or, Etz Ahayem, Agudath Israel
Rabbi Benjamin Goldstein, Temple Beth Or, and the Scottsboro boys
At one with the majority opinion : Brown, the moderates and the White citizens' council
Rabbi Seymour Atlas, Agudath Israel, and the bus boycott
Communists and mongrelizers
Aftermath