Question

In 1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by African-American activist W.E.B. Dubois and a group of Jewish Americans. Why did Jewish Americans historically ally themselves politically with African Americans?

Answer 1

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)[a] is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovingtonand Moorfield Storey.[3]

Answer 2

The Jewish Americans historically allied themselves politically with African Americans because they felt they both had had similar experiences with prejudice.

• During the 1900s, the white Americans (the majority class) discriminated against black African Americans and American jews.
• Since both the victim classes were being suppressed by the same majority, they decided to fight together to gain equal treatment.
• In 1909, both the classes came together to lay the foundation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.