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AARP, 241
Abram, Ann, 18, 50, 57, 135, 137, 145, 198, 235
Abram, Carlyn Feldman Fisher, 36, 140, 141, 168, 222
Abram, Cecily, 18
Abram, Irene Cohen, 16, 17, 19
Abram, Jane Maguire, 18, 36–37, 38, 40–41, 44, 50, 61, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 145
Abram, Jeanette. See Bernstein, Jeanette Abram (sister)
Abram, Joshua, 9, 135, 136, 137, 139, 145, 235
Abram, Morris Berthold: affirmative action and, 177–98, 238–39; “Americus Four” Case, 97–100; ancestry, 13–16, 19; argument before Federal Court in Sanders v. Gray, 1–2, 71–72; argument before Supreme Court in Gray v. Sanders, 74–77; battle with leukemia, 5, 7, 132, 153–56; birth in Fitzgerald, 16; campaign for the House of Representatives, 1954, 49–53; candidacy for U.S. Senate, 1970, 147; Carter Administration and, 171–75; chairman of Commission on Biomedical Ethics, 160–62; chairman of Conference of Presidents, 8, 199, 209–15, 292, 295; chairman of UN Watch, 225–32, 244; childhood, 11, 18–25; county unit system and, 1–2, 3, 52, 75, 77–86, 87–92; death in Geneva, 234; Emory 1972 Commencement Address, 145, 165–67, 177, 239–40; Field Foundation and, 80, 81, 91–2, 175–76; funeral of, 235; general counsel of the Peace Corps, 59–60, 81; head of Ad Hoc Group on the UN, 217–19; head of Atlanta Citizens Crime Commission, 53, 100–101; Jewish identity, 5–6, 28, 29, 32–33, 56, 91, 94–95, 242–43; Jimmy Carter and, 100, 167–68, 169–72, 174–75; leukemia treatment of, 168–69, 184–88; marriage to Bruna Molina, 222, 234; marriage to Carlyn Fisher, 140–41; marriage to Jane Maguire, 36–37, 135, 140; Martin Luther King, Jr. and, 4, 57–59, 109–10, 173; Martin Luther King, Sr. and, 58, 59, 184; memorial service in Geneva for, 236, 238; military service, 36–37; Moreland Commission investigation and, 156–60; Nuremburg War Crimes Trials and, 38–41; partner at Paul, Weiss, 8, 81–82, 97–98, 148–54, 186; partner at Heyman, Abram, and Young, 46–48, 55; political beliefs of, 166–67, 174, 239–42; presidency of Brandeis, 7, 116–33; presidency of American Jewish Committee, 4, 83, 87–91, 92–93, 110; presidential campaign of 1972 and, 167; presidential campaign of 1976 and, 168–71; pro-Israel advocacy, 108–9, 213–15, 289–90; pursuit of electoral office, 6–7, 49–53, 111–12, 147; racial preference issue and, 11, 177–82, 188–89, 193, 195–97; reflections on UN role in promoting human rights, 272–74, 223–24; relationship with his children, 135–36, 145; Soviet Jewry issue and, 199–208; student at the University of Chicago Law School, 31–34, 40; student at the University of Georgia, 27–31; U.S. Ambassador to the UN in Europe and, 219–22, 228; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and, 183–93, 198; U.S. Representative to UN Human Rights Commission, 86–87; Vatican and, 87–90; White House Conference on Civil Rights and, 101–6; Zionism and, 29, 34, 48
Abram, Morris, Jr., 7–8, 50, 135, 136, 145, 165
Abram, Ruth, 5, 17, 38, 50, 56, 79, 121–22, 130, 135, 137, 138, 145, 217, 239, 242
Abram, Ruthann. See Reis, Ruthann Abram
Abram, Sam, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 31, 82
Abrams, Elliott, 262n36
ACLU, 187
Aelony, Zev, 98
affirmative action, 190, 191, 239
AFL-CIO, 187
Ahlmark, Per, 226
Aid to Dependent Children, 104
AIPAC, 214
Ajami, Fouad, 213
Akiva, Rabbi, 94
Alexander, Miles, 34, 46, 51–52, 89
Allen, Ivan, Jr., 100–101
Allen, Ralph, 98
American Bar Association, 84, 97, 211–13
American Civil Liberties Union, 33, 51
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 183, 184–85
American Jewish Committee, 4, 8, 55, 82, 83, 84, 91, 92, 93, 110–12, 115, 132, 201, 202, 213; Akiva Award, 94; American Liberties award by, 238; Atlanta chapter of the, 34; Blaustein Institute, 231–32; Catholic Church and, 87–90; discrimination against Jews in banking, 35–36; Distinguished Leadership Award, 233; Six-Day War and, 90; UN Watch and, 232; Zionism is Racism resolution and, 232
American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, 201, 202
American Jewish Congress, 213
American Jewish Service Committee on Civilian Relief in Vietnam, 112
“Americus Four” case, 98–100
Annan, Kofi, 233–34
Anti-Defamation League, 3, 54, 55–56, 187, 209, 213, 233
antisemitism, 24–25, 51; black-Jewish relations and, 108–11, 112–13; Carter Administration and, 173–74; Catholic Church and, 47–90; Soviet, 101–4, 246; Zionism and, 109
Anti-treason Act (Georgia), 98
Arnall, Ellis, 45
Asher, Robert, 214
Association of Soviet Lawyers, 211–13
Atlanta Citizens Crime Commission, 53
Atlanta Urban League, 45
Auletta, Ken, 158
Avram, Anna Zalman, 14
Avram, Moshe, 14
Aydelotte, Frank, 38
Bahat, Shulamit, 202
Bailey, Randy, 122
Baker, James, 217
Bakke, Allan, 177
Baldy, 74
Ball, George, 213
Baxter, Harry, 34
Bayme, Steven, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95
Beame, Abraham, 160
Begin, Menachem, 94
Berle, Adolph, 80
Bernhard, Berl, 102
Bernstein, Jeanette Abram (sister), 20, 36
Bickel, Alexander, 196–97
Biden, Joseph, 185
Bitburg, Germany, 208–9
Black, Hugo, 43, 61, 66, 68, 69, 72, 73
black-Jewish conflict, 173
Black Power movement, 105, 108–9
Block, Eric, 40, 224, 230, 235, 244
Blumberg, Janice Rothschild, 20, 33
Blumenthal, Albert, 160
Bob Jones University, 186
Bolton, John, 220
Bond, Julian, 188
Brandeis University, 3, 7, 8, 156, 165, 236, 237, 251; Afro-American society at, 118; Black Studies at, 119, 123, 124, 126; financial situation of, 118, 130, 132; Ford Hall takeover and Occupation of, 119–27; founding and role of Abram Sachar, 115; response to King assassination, 117, 119, 123; Transitional Year Program at, 120, 125, 126
Breger, Marshall, 183–84
Brest, Paul, 197
Bronfman, Edgar, 207, 222, 226, 231
Brown, Ed, 137–38
Brown v. Board of Education, 49, 52, 102, 179
Buckley, William F., 60–61, 77, 124, 128, 177
Bunche, Ralph, 92
Burke, Edmund, 224
Busbee, George, 72
Bush, George H. W., 4, 200, 215, 217, 220
Califano, Joseph, 161
Cardozo Law School, 245
Carey, Hugh, 156
Carmen, Gerald, 219
Carmichael, James, 64
Carmichael, Stokely, 107
Carter, Billy, 174
Carter, Hodding, 23
Carter, Jimmy, 3, 22, 55, 100, 161, 167–75
Carter, Roslyn, 168
Carter Administration, 183, 185
Case, Clifford, 92
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 152
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 119
Center for Defense Information, 175
Center for National Security Studies, 175
Century Foundation. See Twentieth Century Fund
Chavez, Linda, 183, 184, 189, 190
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 68–69, 182
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 9, 72, 84, 100, 101, 175, 186; Title VII, 152, 181
civil rights movement, 6, 9, 102–5, 107–8, 218, 237; black-Jewish tension within, 108–10
Civil Service Commission, PACE examination, 181–82
Clay, Lucius, 39
Cohen, Benjamin, 80
Cohen, Daisy, 16
Cohen, Jacob, 119, 120–21, 125, 132, 147, 237–38
Cohen, Jonathan, 225–26, 230–31, 232, 243
Cohen, Morris, 16
Cohen, Naomi, 94
Cohen, Sarah, 16
Cohen, Wilbur, 116
Colson, Michael, 139–40, 142, 235, 227–30
Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 174, 220
Committee for the Marshall Plan, 43
comparable worth issue, 190–91
Conable, Barber, 217
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, 8, 199, 200, 203, 205, 209, 212, 217, 240, 243
Congregation B’nai Jehudah, 14
Congregation Temple Beth El, 14
Congressional Black Caucus, 172
Congressional Caucus for Women, 191
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 98
Congress of Racial Equality, 98, 102, 104, 121
Costykian, Edward, 175
Cotler, Irwin, 225
county unit system, 1, 4, 23, 30; Citizens Against the County Unit Amendment, 48; congressional districts and, 51; defeat of proposed constitutional amendments on, 76; Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause and, 64, 73, 77; impact of federal Court decision in Sanders v. Gray, 72; Neill Primary Act, 63; racial discrimination and, 66, 68, 76; relationship with reapportionment issue, 64–65, 70–71, 75; Supreme Court dissents in cases rejected by the majority, 66, 68, 69; Talmadge coalition support for, 64, 71; use in selecting congressional candidates, 63–64
Covenant of the League of Nations, 223
Cox, Archibald, 59, 72, 73, 74, 76–77
Cox v. Peters, 67–68
Cravath, Swain and Moore, 152–53
Cushing, Cardinal Richard, 90
Daedalus, 130
Dakota Apartment Building, 137
D’Amato, Alfonse, 184
Davis, James, 49, 50, 51–52, 64, 65, 67, 72
DeFunis v. Odegaard, 196
Democratic National Convention of 1964, 108
Denniston, Lyle, 149
Dershowitz, Alan, 8, 152–53, 211–12
Destro, Robert, 151–53, 183, 186, 190
Dole, Robert, 217
Douglas, Frederick, 196
Douglas, Hamilton, III, 65
Douglas, William, 66, 68, 69, 73, 77, 148, 196
Ebeneezer Baptist Church, 59
Elson, Harry, 56
Eppstein, Elias, 14, 15, 16, 24
Epstein, Joseph, 240
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 221
Evans, Eli, 5, 6, 19, 20, 24, 34, 47, 52, 56, 140, 149, 151, 239
“Extremism in America Today” (TV interview), 92
Fair Housing Act of 1968, 194
Fenton, John, 123
Ferris, Bruce, 73
Field, Marshall, III, 91
Field, Ruth, 92
Field Foundation, 80, 81, 91, 107, 175, 176
Finch, Atticus, 44
Fitzgerald, Georgia, 4, 49, 200, 236, 242, 245; Carnegie Free Library of, 21; and the Fitzgerald Herald, 20; Hebrew Commercial Alliance, 20; history of, 11–13; Jews of, 13, 19–21; and the Leader, Enterprise, and Press, 20–21; liberalism of, 23
Fitzgerald, Phylander, 12
Fleming, Harold, 65
Florida State College for Women, 37
Ford Foundation, 112
Forman, Deborah, 141–42
Forman, James, 109
The Founding Myths of Modern Israel (Garaudy), 230
Fourteenth Amendment, 239; equal protection clause, 29, 196–97. See also county unit system
Foxman, Abraham, 209
Frankfurter, Felix, 64–65, 73, 75
Franklin v. Harper, 45
Freedom House, 225
Freund, Paul, 252n63
Friedman, Murray, 113
Fuchs, Lawrence, 123
Fullilove v. Klutznick, 178, 182
Gaer, Felice, 231–32
Gaon, Nessim, 227
Garaudy, Roger, 230
Gaywood, Hannah, 228, 229, 232
Geneva Summit, 259
George, Walter, 50
Georgia Bar (journal), 67
Gitter, Joe, 28
Gitter, Max, 150, 171, 215, 222
Gitter, Naomi, 28
Glazer, Nathan, 197
Gloster, Hugh, 128
Goldberg, Arthur, 81, 91, 116, 147–48, 186, 202, 226
Goldenberg, Isadore, 13
Goodhardt, Arthur Lehman, 38, 39
Goodman, Jerry, 203–4, 206, 214
Goodwin, George, 241
Goodwin, Richard, 104
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 199, 201, 205, 207, 208
Gray v. Sanders, 52; oral argument in, 74–77
Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, 203
Greenberg, Jack, 102
Greenfield, Meg, 217
Gupte, Pranay, 156
Haas, Leonard, 33
Hamilton, Grace Towns, 45, 46, 49, 162, 186
Harris, David, 83, 87, 164–65, 208, 224, 232, 236
Harris, Don, 98
Hartsfield, William, 2, 52, 53, 57–58, 69, 70–71, 92
Hartsfield v. Sloan, 69, 70, 71
Harvard Law School, 32
Height, Dorothy, 102
Heineman, Ben, 106
Hesburgh, Theodore, 102
Heyman, Abram and Young, 46, 56
Heyman, Arthur, 44
Heyman, Herman, 44, 46, 47, 53, 56
Hicks, Robert, 4, 7, 44, 56, 80, 132, 139, 153–54, 235, 268n31
Hoenlein, Malcolm, 203, 210–11, 214
Holbrooke, Richard, 234
Holland, James, 155
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 236, 242
Hooks, Benjamin, 188
Howell and Post law firm, 41
Humphrey, Hubert, 102, 132, 155, 167, 185
Institute for Policy Studies, 104, 175
Israel, 5, 6, 88, 90–91, 95, 109–10, 173, 175; Bar Association of, 212; Lavi fighter jet in, 215; in Six-Day War, 109, 139, 164, 213; Liaison Bureau (for Soviet Jewry) and, 202
Israeli Students Organization, 203
Ivanov, Boris, 85
Jabotinsky Foundation, 94
Jackson, Henry, 9, 94, 155, 168–69, 185
Jackson, Robert, 4, 38, 39, 40
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 169
Jacobson, Eddie, 14
Jefferson Medical School, 16
Jewish Defense League (JDL), 93
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 112
Jewish Theological Seminary, 245
Jews Without Embellishment (Kichko), 85
Johnson, Lyndon, 80, 86, 97, 101–5, 107, 168, 170; Howard University Address, 101, 104–5
Johnson, Paul, 240
Jordan, Vernon, 147, 163–64, 171, 192, 245
Judaism: Reconstructionist Movement, 33; Zionism and, 29
Kahane, Meir, 93
Kander, Harold, 16
Kander, John, 16
Kander, Mathilda, 15–16
Kaplan, Mordecai, 33
Keller, Morton, 126–27
Kennedy, Ethel, 74
Kennedy, Jaqueline, 74
Kennedy, John F., 4, 32, 55, 56, 58, 59, 81, 84, 97, 100, 180, 185
Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., 32
Kennedy, Robert F., 58, 59, 73, 74, 76–77, 92, 97, 102, 112, 149, 201
Kessler, Fritz, 32
Keyserling, Billy, 136–37, 209
Kilgo v. Bowman, 191
King, Coretta Scott, 58, 117, 237
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 4, 57, 58, 59, 101, 102, 109–10, 133, 188, 172, 173, 236, 237, 238
King, Martin Luther, Sr., 58, 59, 184
Kirbo, Charles, 171
Kirkland, Lane, 226
Kraft, Tim, 161
Krasner, Jonathan, 128
Ku Klux Klan, 4, 6, 23, 35, 49, 54, 188
LaFollette, Bronson, 102
Lance, Bert, 174
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 97, 180–82
Lazarus, Maurice, 161
Lazin, Fred, 206
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 221, 227
League of Women Voters, 48, 187
Lefkoff, Joseph, 53, 54, 55, 74, 138–39, 160
Lefkowitz, Louis, 160
Lerner, Barron, 156
Leverett, E. Freeman, 74–75
Levitas, Elliott, 51
Lewis, C. S., 243
Lewis, John, 102, 107, 200, 245
Lilienthal, David, 80
Lindsey, John, 112, 116, 158, 160
“Living with Leukemia” (Abram), 161
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 219
Lowenstein, Allard, 108
Lucido v. Cravath, Swain, and Moore, 193
Lucido, John, 152–53
Maguire, Raymer, 37
Maguire, Ruth McCollough, 37
Maine, Sir Henry, 179
Maloof, Ted, 3, 46, 47, 48, 55, 56, 81
Mankin, Helen Douglas, 63, 64, 65–66
Marshall, Thurgood, 188
Martinson, Ian, 222
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz, 222
McCarthy, Joseph, 60
McCloy, John J., 39
McGill, Ralph, 52
McGovern, George, 167
McGowan, Carl, 252n63
Mendelevich, Yosef, 200
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 113
Metzenbaum, Howard, 185
Miller, Arnie, 161
Millette, Ricardo, 121
Mitchell, George, 217
Mitchell, Stephens, 51
Molina, Bruna, 8, 139, 142, 222, 226, 229, 232, 234, 243, 245
Moment, 212
Morehouse College (University), 128, 245
Moreland Commission investigation, 156–60
Morgan, Charles, Jr., 187
Moses, Alfred, 132, 187, 232, 236
Mount Sinai Hospital, 154, 161, 232
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 103–5, 184, 238
Mt. Sinai Hospital, 154, 155, 161
Murphy, B. D., 74
Musial, Stanislaw, 226
NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, 102
National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), 199, 201, 202, 203, 204–5, 209, 210, 212, 217
National Council of Negro Women, 102
National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC), 204, 264n25
National Movement for the Student Vote, 136–37
National Retired Teachers Association, 160
National Urban League, 102, 187
Nation of Islam, 108–9
natural law, 40. See also University of Chicago; Levi, Edward
Neas, Ralph, 187
Netanyahu, Benjamin. See Nitay, Ben
New Left, 6, 104, 108, 132, 164; 1967 conference in Chicago to build biracial coalition, 109–10
“New Politics,” 167
New Republic, 195
New Voter Registration Act, 45
New York Civil Liberties Organization, 213
New York magazine, 150
Nixon, Richard, 128, 136, 168, 175; Nixon-Kissinger détente policy, 168
Northern, William J., 12
Novak, Steven, 180
Nudel, Ida, 200
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, 4, 38–42, 53, 200, 203
Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 112, 165
Orlando Morning Sentinel, 37
Orlov, Yuri, 207
Ostrovsky, Yacov, 86
Oxford University, 31, 36, 38, 39, 41, 43, 47, 49
Palestine Liberation Organization, 173, 213–14
Patterson, Anne, 220, 221, 226, 243
Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton and Garrison, 3, 8, 72, 81, 82, 98, 116, 139, 143, 148–50, 152, 215, 222, 225, 228
Pekarsky, Maurice, 33
Pendleton, Clarence, 186, 188, 190, 191
Perdew, John, 98
Peres, Shimon, 214
Perez de Cuellar, Javier, 217
Perliss, Lamar, 16–17, 21–22, 25
Perlmutter, Nathan, 187–88
Peters, James, 66
Petrone, Joseph, 219
Podhoretz, Norman, 238
Poindexter, John, 207
Pollard, Jonathan, 214
Pope John XXIII, 87–88
Pope Paul VI, 88–89
Proskauer, Joseph, 90
Proskauer, Rose, 80–81
Rabin, Yitzchak, 214
race-based preferences, 174, 187, 189, 191, 193, 198
race-based quotas, 173, 177–78, 187, 188, 192, 194
Railey, Agnes, 47
Ramer, Bruce, 231
Ramirez, Blandina Cardenas, 189, 192
Ramspeck, Robert, 63–64
Randolph, A. Philip, 102, 105, 201
Raskin, Marcus, 104
Rauh, Joseph, 108
Rauh, Joseph, Jr., 182
Raynor, Phyllis, 118
Reagan, Ronald, 23, 175, 176, 189, 198, 199, 204, 205, 207, 208
Reagan Administration, 182, 186, 189, 194, 204, 207, 209; Justice Department, Civil Rights Division, 194–95
Redlich, Norman, 181
Reis, Harold, 98
Reis, Ruthann Abram, 20
Religious Voluntary Association, 29
Reykjavik Summit, 207
Reynolds, William Bradford, 194–95
Rhodes Scholarship, 6, 31, 32, 35, 36, 43, 48, 49
Ribicoff, Abraham, 201
Richard Russell, 22–23
Rich’s Department Store, 57
Rifkind, Simon, 81, 148, 259n7
Rocalli, Angelo Cardinal. See Pope John XXIII
Rockefeller, Nelson, 111, 147, 157–60, 177, 189–92
Roosevelt, Franklin, 30–31, 148, 171, 185
Rosdeitcher, Sydney, 98–99, 143, 150–51
Rothschild, Jacob, 117
Sachar, Abram, 115, 118–19, 122, 128
Sacks, I. Milton, 129
Safra, Edmund, 227
Sanders, James O’Hare, 70
San Francisco State University, 120–21, 122
Sanua, Marianne, 110
Saperstein, David, 187
Scarlett, Frank, 70
Schact, Hjalmer, 39
Schifter, Richard, 201
Schroeder, Patricia, 191
Scowcroft, Brent, 217
Shanker, Albert, 113, 183, 184–85
Shapiro, Manheim, 28
Sharansky, Anatoly (Natan), 172, 199, 200, 212
Sheehan, Cardinal Lawrence, 89
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 205
Shoob, Marvin, 191
Shriver, Sargent, 57, 58, 59, 60
Sibley, Samuel, 66
Singer, Eric, 20
Sir George Williams University (Concordia University), 120
Six-Day War. See Israel
Slepak, Vladimir, 200
Sloan, Boyd, 69
Snowe, Olympia, 191
Somerville, Virginia, 33–34, 36
Sommaruga, Cornelio, 234
Sorensen, Gillian Martin, 233
Sorensen, Theodore, 81, 148, 233
South, Bernard, 65
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 102, 109–10, 172
Southern Jewish Historical Society, 242
Southern Regional Council, 65, 163, 175
South v. Peters, 65–66
Soviet Jewry, 5
Soviet Jewry Movement, 5; divisions within, 204; Freedom Day rally, 199–200; Israeli government and, 202, 208; origins, 201–2; Reagan Administration and, 205–7. See also National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ); National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC); Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ); Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry (UCSJ)
Soviet Union, 172; antisemitism and, 84–87, 202; Association of Soviet Lawyers (ASL), 212–13; Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 85; Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 84–86
Sowell, Thomas, 240
Sparks, Fred, 213
Spellman, Cardinal Francis, 88
Squire, David, 119, 128–29, 130, 131
Starrett City housing project, 193–95
Steingut, Stanley, 160
Stermer, Der, 39
Stevenson, Adlai, 80, 81, 92, 148, 176
Stewart, Potter, 75
Streicher, Julius, 39
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 97, 102, 107, 108, 109
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ), 202, 204
Sub-Commission for the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. See United Nations
Sullivan, William, 120
Sununu, John, 217
Sweder, Kenneth, 116, 118, 123, 127, 131
Talmadge, Eugene, 2, 30, 35, 64
Talmadge, Herman, 1, 2, 30, 48, 52, 57, 71, 80
Tannenbaum, Marc, 90
Teitelbaum, Anna, 242
Teitelbaum, Herbert, 121–22, 206
Tennessee Valley Authority, 60
Tepperman, Jonathan, 144–45, 227, 228, 235, 244
Thompson, R. A., 46
Thurmond, J. Strom, 184
Troutman, Robert, Jr., 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 56–57, 58, 116
Troutman, Robert, Sr., 32, 33, 34
Tucker, Robert W., 213
Turman v. Duckworth, 65
Twentieth Century Fund, 80
Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry (UCSJ), 202, 204
United Federation of Teachers (UFT), 112
United Nations, 246; Ad Hoc Group on the UN, 217–19; antisemitism and, 224, 225–26, 227; anti-Zionism and, 218, 224, 230; Charter, 219, 222, 232; Commission on Human Rights, 86–87, 221, 222, 224, 227, 230; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism, 84; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Religious Discrimination, 84; Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Religious Discrimination, 85–86; Declaration of Human Rights, 218, 232; Human Rights at, 171–72; Israel and, 220, 221, 224, 233; the PLO and, 218, 220; Sub-Commission for the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities, 81, 84, 227; “Zionism is Racism” Resolution, 87, 208, 217, 220
United Negro College Fund, 163–64, 236, 245
University of Chicago, 6, 128, 151; Hillel Foundation, 32–33; law school, 31–32, 35, 40
University of Georgia, 6, 25, 27, 155, 200, 244; Demosthenon Literary Society, 29, 30; Law School, 32; Phi Kappa Literary Society, 30, 31
UN Watch, 3, 40, 132, 139, 144, 235, 236; access to UN officials, 228; activities in addition to support for Israel, 230; campaign against Holocaust denial, 230; origins, 225–26; relationship with the World Jewish Congress, 225–26, 231; as a target of attacks, 227; transfer of sponsorship to AJC, 231–32
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 9, 23, 182–83, 189, 190, 191, 192, 195, 197, 198, 205, 236
Vance, Cyrus, 219
Vanik, Charles, 169
Veil, Simone, 94
Vietnam War, 123, 129, 172, 175
Village Voice, 195
Von Pappen, Franz, 39
Vorspan, Albert, 93
Voter Education Project, 163
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 101, 107, 186
Watts Riot, 103
Weiss, Branco, 227
Westminster School, 79
White, Theodore, 175
White House Conference on Civil Rights, 101–3, 105–7; and controversy over Moynihan Report, 103–5
Wien, Lawrence, 115
Wiesel, Ellie, 199
Wilkins, Roy, 101, 102, 105, 107
Wilson, Malcolm, 160
Wisse, Ruth, 225
Withers, Stanley, 25
Wofford, Harris, 57–58
Wollach, David, 227
Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 16
Woodruff, Robert, 70
World Jewish Congress, 207, 213
Young, Andrew, 23, 44, 172–73, 188
Young, Robert, 46
“Zionism is Racism” resolution. See United Nations