Photo of the day: Louise Waterman Wise and Justine Wise (1920). From American Jewish Historical Society.
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Jewish Labor Committee: Part 1
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To view all posts in the series, click here.
The Jewish Labor Committee is the longest existing prominent pro-civil rights Jewish labor organization. It was founded in 1934 as a union between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), the International…