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An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 3: ACTIVISM

By Lauren Gilbert (co-curator)
Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History

An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 3: ACTIVISM

This is a series of blog posts about the upcoming exhibition An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, a joint project of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and Center for Jewish History. For an overview of the exhibition and its…

Creating the Promised Land: American Jewish Voices on Civil Rights and Discriminatory Legislation

By

Poorvi Bellur

Conducted
over the course of Black History Month 2017, this research project is
structured around primary sources from the archives and the personal
collections of each of these individuals and their correspondences with other
important leaders of the Civil Rights movement. This study focuses on the
umbrella organization of the American Jewish Congress and profiles…

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