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While much of the world smiles at the “firsts” attached to Vice President Kamala Harris’ swearing in, I think as well of something closer to home. It sounds like the opening line of a Borscht Belt joke: “A Jew and a Black minister walk into the Senate …”
When the results came in from Georgia’s run-off Senate races, I recited the
sh’hechianu prayer, thankful to be alive to witness it. As a native of Atlanta, born when Calvin Coolidge was President, Jim Crow prevailed and white people rose to give the rebel yell at the first strains of “Dixie,” it didn’t seem likely that Georgians would ever send a Black minister and a young Jewish filmmaker to represent them in Washington.
In 1961, the story of the Freedom Riders captured the American imagination: young, mostly white Northern students teaming up with Southern, mostly black civil-rights activists to stage acts of civil disobedience by simply riding together on segregated buses.
Traveling through the South in Integrated groups, the activists faced violence and arrests, followed by weeks-long stays in prisons, often under abusive conditions. Those circumstances, and their courage in facing them, brought a powerful new wave of attention to racial injustice, and served as a catalyst for major new civil-rights initiatives.
Among the Freedom Riders imprisoned was Rabbi Philip Posner, then a seminary student in California.