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Jews Associated with the NAACP
A list of Jews who founded, work(ed) for, or are
otherwise associated with the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP):
Joel Spingarn
Arthur
Spingarn (brother)
Julius Rosenthal
Henry
Malkewitz
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch
Lillian
Wald
Kivie Kaplan
Nathan Margold
Jack
Greenberg a very important person in the civil-rights
movement
Julian Mack
Henry Moskowitz
Herbert
Hill
Louis Marshall
Rabbi David
Saperstein
Rabbi Stephen Wise
Herbert
Lehman
Arthur Sachs
Herbert Seligmann
Martha
Gruening
Felix Frankfurter
Herman
Lehman
June Shagaloff (birthname, not married name) Special
Counsel
Milton R. Konvitz Assistant Special Counsel; aid to
Thurgood Marshall at NAACP
Helen (Lehman) Buttenwieser on
NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (LDF, aka LDEF) board
Michael
Meltsner first assistant counsel in NAACP's LDF
Louis H.
Pollack vice president of NAACP's LDF
Andrew D. Weinberger
NAACP lawyer
Paul Bender lawyers' training instructor in NAACP's
LDF
Michael Sovern lawyer's training director in LDF/LDF board
member
Albert Sachs lawyers' training instructor in
LDF
James Vorenberg LDF board member
Norman Redlich
LDF board member
Lani Guinier (half-Black, w/ Jewish mother)
lawyer in LDF
James Liebman assistant counsel in LDF
Peter
Zimroth a law student intern at LDF
Bernard Segal LDF board
member; he was key in urging President Kennedy to aid Black civil rights
(and he cochaired a committee set up by Kennedy the Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law to aid Black civil rights. Significantly, Segal
recommended many of the attorneys on the committee; that committee still
exists today); Segal was also a key player in the opposition to Alabama
governor George Wallace's racial policies.
Dorothy Rosenman LDF
board member
Dave Pinsky NAACP staff lawyer
Henry
Aronson NAACP staff lawyer in
Mississippi
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