July 4, 2026
Circle of Humanity: Honoring the Civil Rights Movement, the Holocaust, and Our Shared Future
For decades, Minister Corine Mack, President of Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP, and I have been in conversation about the historic partnership between the African American and Jewish communities. Together, Blacks and Jews helped found the NAACP in 1909. Together, philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and educator Booker T. Washington built more than 5,000 Rosenwald Schools across the South, expanding educational opportunities for Black students. Together, civil rights leaders marched, organized, and were jailed in…
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