Famous white person who helped, or influenced, the black civil rights movement?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT John F. Kennedy ROBERT F. KENNEDY (MAJOR PLAYER IN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT) The Rockefeller Family and their foundation (founded and funded the first Black Women’s college in America) Many in the Jewish-American community supported the Civil Rights Movement and Jews were more actively involved in the civil rights movement than any other white group in America. Many Jewish students worked in concert with African Americans for CORE, SCLC, and SNCC as full-time organizers and summer volunteers during the Civil Rights era. Jews made up roughly half of the white northern volunteers involved in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project and approximately half of the civil rights attorneys active in the South during the 1960s.[37] Jewish leaders were arrested with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964 after a challenge to racial segregation in public accommodations. Abraham Joshua Heschel, a writer, rabbi and professor of theology at the Jewish T
