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Breaking barriers: a Jewish teen's role in desegregation in 1950s Texas

Politics

In the run-up to today’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, now a US federal holiday, I recollected about segregation in my childhood in New Braunfels, a small Texas town.We were one of five Jewish families. We had no synagogue and little kosher food, but my parents brought a melamed (a teacher) from San Antonio to teach us Jewish children Hebrew, the prayerbook, and the Bible.I don’t remember overt antisemitism. In fact, I was voted senior class president in high school. The “white” high school, that is. The blacks were segregated in the “colored” Booker T. Washington school. The laws of segregation pained me.

Jerusalem Post (Opinion)     Jan 20, 2025