FACT CHECK · IDENTITY & HISTORY
Claim: Jews never stood with Black Americans
FALSETHE ANSWER
Jews helped found the NAACP in 1909. In 1964 the KKK murdered Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, two Jewish activists, with James Chaney in Mississippi, during Freedom Summer.
SOURCE
NAACP history (founders incl. Henry Moskowitz); FBI, "Mississippi Burning" case file
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