From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter was once attached to a carbon copy of a letter from Drew Pearson to Robert Beech in which Pearson responds to a previous letter from Beech.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This document by an unknown author maintains that Jews and Communists are brainwashing Americans by using control over the news media to advance views on civil rights. The author accuses Jews and Communists...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This is the first page of an issue of The Temple journal, showing an article promoting a speaking engagement of Rabbi Ben-Ami on April 4, [1965]. Ben-Ami's topic was Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. Also...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This a copy of a letter from Drew Pearson to Robert Beech. Pearson responds to Beech's January 4, 1965, letter in which Beech contends that Pearson published inaccuracies in a column that appeared on...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Samuel J. Simmons to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on United States Commission on Civil Rights letterhead. The letter notifies Rabbi Ben-Ami of his appointment to the Mississippi Advisory Committee...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This letter from W.G. Sims to Drew Pearson explains how turkeys donated by the "Christmas for Mississippi" project were distributed to needy families in the Hattiesburg area on Christmas Eve 1964.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. Transcription of the March 18, 1965, radio broadcast of Edward P. Morgan on the resignation of David Z. Ben-Ami from Temple B'nai Israel (Hattiesburg, Mississippi).
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This flyer advertises a campaign headed by comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory to send 20,000 turkeys to needy families in Mississippi. The flyer announces that for $5.00, Chicagoans can donate...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. Irene [last name unknown] writes to Rabbi and Rebetzin Ben-Ami from San Francisco about her speaking engagements there and how she misses Hattiesburg.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The memorial flyer commemorates Medgar Evers' murder in 1963 with a photograph of Evers and a quote from the Gospel of John.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Anne Braden to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Southern Conference Educational Fund letterhead, and the left margin includes a list of the staff at the SCEF office in Louisville, Kentucky. Braden...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers; Meyer Blatt questions the moral right of the Temple B'nai Israel congregation to force the resignation of Rabbi David Z. Ben-Ami in an effort to make him give up his civil rights activities.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from O.J. Keller to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Abraham Lincoln Association letterhead and lists the association's officers and board members in the right margin of the page. Mr. Keller invites...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) letterhead. The letter responds to a previous letter from Rabbi Ben-Ami.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This piece of Ku Klux Klan propaganda maintains that civil rights workers are Communists in disguise and that governmental officials are in league with them. An interview with an unnamed official of the KKK...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This document lists names, addresses and phone numbers of the members of the 1964 Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Details for some members are included, such...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Robert Beech to Drew Pearson offers corrections and criticism concerning a column written by Pearson that appeared on Christmas Day 1964.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The pamphlet explains that the Committee of Concern is an interracial, interfaith group with the goal of raising and managing funds and equipment to rebuild burned churches in the Hattiesburg area. A...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The document contains an editorial by Jerome Lipnick titled From where I stand. Mr. Lipnick discusses the forced resignation of Rabbi David Z. Ben-Ami from Temple B'nai Israel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This bulletin for Temple B'Nai Israel includes a message from Rabbi Ben-Ami on the meaning of the High Holy Days, a welcome to the new Rabbi, and a list of families in the B'Nai Israel community. It also...
