Even before the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Jews and Blacks had participated in friendship and mutual support. In the 19th century. many Jews. concerned with human rights abuses that reminded them of the European tyranny they had fled. promptly joined the Abolitionist movement upon their emigration to the United States. Among them was August Bondi. a Viennese scholar who quickly committed himself to fighting slavery. fought with John Brown In his famous raid on Harpers Ferry. and served with distinction in the Union Army. Jewish defense of the rights of Black Americans did not stop with the Emancipation Proclamation.
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