Fractures in the Grand Alliance between Black and Jewish Americans

Fractures in the Grand Alliance between Black and Jewish Americans Close your eyes and you might be able to conjure the iconic image of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, with a white bushy beard, as he marches alongside Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's 1965 and they're at the front of the delegation from Selma to Mongtomery, Alabama. Everyone wears big Hawaiian leis – given as a symbol of support and solidarity by Reverend Abraham Akaka. Scholars say this moment enshrines the so-called Grand Alliance, in which Black and Jewish...