Jews Associated with NAACP



by VNN research staff

List of Jews who founded, work(ed) for, or are otherwise associated with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP):



Joel Spingarn

Arthur Spingarn (brother)

Julius Rosenthal

Henry Malkewitz

Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch

Lillian Wald

Kivie Kaplan

Nathan Margold

Jack Greenberg

Julian Mack

Henry Moskowitz

Herbert Hill

Louis Marshall

Rabbi David Saperstein

Rabbi Stephen Wise

Herbert Lehman

Arthur Sachs

Herbert Seligmann

Martha Gruening

Felix Frankfurter

Herman Lehman

June Shagaloff (birthname, not married name) Special Counsel

Milton R. Konvitz Assistant Special Counsel; aid to Thurgood Marshall at NAACP

Helen (Lehman) Buttenwieser on NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (LDF, aka LDEF) board

Michael Meltsner first assistant counsel in NAACP's LDF

Louis H. Pollack vice president of NAACP's LDF

Andrew D. Weinberger NAACP lawyer

Paul Bender lawyers' training instructor in NAACP's LDF

Michael Sovern lawyer's training director in LDF/LDF board member

Albert Sachs lawyers' training instructor in LDF

James Vorenberg LDF board member

Norman Redlich LDF board member

Lani Guinier (halfBlack, w/ Jewish mother) lawyer in LDF

James Liebman assistant counsel in LDF

Peter Zimroth a law student intern at LDF Bernard Segal LDF board member; he was key in urging President Kennedy to aid Black civil rights

(and he cochaired a committee set up by Kennedy the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to aid Black civil rights. Significantly, Segal recommended many of the attorneys on the committee; that committee still exists today); Segal was also a key player in the opposition to Alabama governor George Wallace's racial policies.

Dorothy Rosenman LDF board member

Dave Pinsky NAACP staff lawyer

Henry Aronson NAACP staff lawyer in Mississippi



