THE HELIOS BIBLIOS HOUR : DR. MARTING LUTHER KING /DEATH OF THE KING

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“Set fire to their synagogues or schools,” Martin Luther recommended in On the Jews and Their Lies. Jewish houses should “be razed and destroyed,” and Jewish “prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, [should] be taken from them.” In addition, “their rabbis [should] be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.” Still, this wasn’t enough.In 1964, King said: “It would be impossible to record the contribution that the Jewish people have made toward the Negro’s struggle for freedom — it has been so great.”In 1956 Stanley Levison, a Jewish attorney from New York, began raising funds to support the Montgomery bus botcott and became acquainted with Martin Luther King, Jr. The two men developed a close relationship in which Levison not only advised King, but also aided him with the day-to-day administrative demands of the movement.The FBI’s interest in Levison was suddenly rekindled in 1959, when the bureau learned of Levison’s connection with King and the movement. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover believed that Levison was a Communist agent .Another was Supreme Court Justice [Felix Frankfurter] who helped draft NAACP legal briefs. Then jacob schiff, banker and community leader, joined the NAACP board.Early donors included Julius Rosenwald, CEO of sears, and Lillian Wald,Joel’s brother Arthur Spingarn, a litigation attorney, was instrumental in leading the NAACP to challenge Woodrow Wilson’s re-segregation of the federal workforce. Spingarn, who was Treasurer of the NAACP after the War—. Mary Overton was Chairman