"Later conflicts between some members of the Black and Jewish communities should not obscure stories that remain to be told of Black and Jewish women's activist collaborations for civil rights. For example, there is a history of collaboration between the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) that dates back at least to the 1940s. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women from 1935 to 1949, sent the organization's executive director to the National Council of Jewish Women for consultations when the NCNW was planning its governance structure."
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Debra L. Schultz Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement (2002)
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Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist who lived in the USA. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Divi
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