“as many as 90 percent of the civil rights lawyers in Mississippi were Jewish.”
I don't think people today can fully appreciate the level of bravery it takes to be a Jewish person living in Mississippi or Alabama, seeing the worst klan violence go unpunished, and choosing to very publicly ally yourself with Black folk, because it is the right thing to do.
(🤔Actually, the way things are going, people *are* starting to get a crystal clear picture again of what that bravery was like...)