Arthur J. Lelyveld papers, 1901-1993 (1950-1987).

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch

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Cleveland Chapter of the national organization devoted to civil and political equality. It was founded in 1912. From the description of Records, series II, 1913-1923. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22836873 Social and political action organization founded in 1912 as a Cleveland branch of the NAACP. Its purpose is to oppose racial inequalities in civil and political rights. From the description of Records 1924-1967. (Rhinelander District Libra...

American Jewish congress

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The American Jewish Congress was founded originally in 1918 by a group of Jewish American leaders as an umbrella structure for Jewish organizations to represent the American Jewish interests at the Peace Conference following the end of World War I. It was seen as a national parliamentary assembly representing all American Jews. Representatives to the Congress were selected by all major national Jewish organizations and delegates representing local communities were elected by some 35...

Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996

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Senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation in Beachwood, Ohio, from 1958 to 1986, and senior rabbi emeritus from 1986 until his death in 1996. He played key roles in national and local Jewish organizations and fought actively for civil rights. He married Teela C. Stovsky Himelfarb in 1965. She was active as a volunteer leader and fundraiser for numerous organizations in the Cleveland area. Teela Lelyveld was also active as a professional model, television host, and public relations representative...

America-Israel Cultural Foundation

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Synagogue Council of America

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Synagogue Council of America (1926-1994) The Synagogue Council of America was proposed at a meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) held in St. Louis at the Twenty-Ninth Council of the UAHC. The conference occurred from January 19-22, 1925. Presented by Dr. David Philipson and Dr. Abram Simon, the resolution called for an organization to promote religious fellowship and cooperation "among the national Jewish congregational organizations" which was "e...

Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Anshe Chesed Congregation, also known as Fairmount Temple, was founded in 1841 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is that city's oldest existing Jewish congregation. For a complete history of Anshe Chesed Congregation, see the register to Ms. 3941 Anshe Chesed Congregation Records. From the description of Anshe Chesed Congregation records, series II, 1905-1993 (1952-1993). (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 41541848 Cleveland's oldest existing Jewish congregation was e...

Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964

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Andrew Goodman, along with hundreds of other students, was a volunteer in the Mississippi Summer Project launched in June 1964 to register black Mississippi residents to vote and to establish Freedom Schools. He along with another white activist, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, an African-American resident of Mississippi and Project volunteer, were shot to death on June 21, 1964. The disappearance and murder of the three men led to the intervention by President Lynden Baines Johnson and an F...

Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio)

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The Jewish Community Federation was founded in 1903. For a history of this organization, see the register to MS. 4563 Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland Records, Western Reserve Historical Society. From the description of Jewish Community Federation minutes, 1902-1987 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 42319086 The Cleveland Jewish Community Survey is a collection of surveys and reports created by the Bureau of Jewish Social Research, a di...

Mississippi Freedom Project

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Union of American Hebrew congregations

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Founded in 1873 when delegates representing twenty-nine congregations basically from the Midwest and the South assembled in Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Records, 1873-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960755 Organization which supports Reform Judaism in North America (including the United States). From the description of Union of American Hebrew Congregations records, 1996-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756915881 ...

Central conference of american rabbis

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The Central Conference of American Rabbis is the oldest rabbinical association in the United States, established by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, a Reform group, in 1889. The Conference has played an influential role in interfaith relations, military chaplaincy, church and state issues, social action, and religious education. Cleveland, Ohio, rabbis who have served as president of the organization include Moses J. Gries, Louis Wolsey, Barnett R. Brickner, and Arthur J. Lelyveld. ...

B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations

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Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)

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