Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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MEET THE AUTHOR COMES TO ZOOM!
Meet David E. Lowe, author of Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination
Morris Abram was a man who, despite being very important to the Jewish Community and the national fight for equality, was largely unknown. Raised in a rural Georgia town with only 12 Jewish families, he rose to become a courageous southern lawyer who played a major role, during the height of Jim Crow segregation, in unmasking the Ku Klux Klan, and in the Supreme Court’s ground-breaking “one person, one vote” ruling. Working in the UN under three US presidents, he spoke out on behalf of Soviet Jews and was a strong defender of the State of Israel, as well as the youngest head of the American Jewish Congress.
Please join David E. Lowe as he describes the man whose work touched on some of the leading issues of our time: civil rights, antisemitism, black-Jewish relations, affirmative action, and international human rights. Mr. Lowe was a Vice President of the bipartisan National Endowment for Democracy, a university professor, and consultant to UN Watch and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was the winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award for Biography.
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