"In fact Jews and others could not walk through the door in many areas prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "
Having grown up, quite happily, in a small North Carolina town in the 1940s and '50s, I can testify from personal experience that there is simply no comparison between the treatment of Jews and of African-Americans prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I can remember one time when I was not allowed to join my many Christian friends in swimming at a country club pool. That's it for any experienced anti-Semitism. I also received Duke's highest scholarship, in 1958, at a time when Duke was still rigidly segregated. (It does me no merit to admit that that didn't stop me from accepting the scholarship.) Perhaps things were worse elsewhere in the South, but, frankly, I doubt that there was a single community, even in the most benighted hamlets in Alabama or Mississippi, where the treatment of Jews even came close to the daily humiliations visited upon African-Americans. sandy
