Gaskin: Blacks, Jews must remember shared legacy

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Gaskin: Blacks, Jews must remember shared legacy

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a high point in the alliance between Jewish and Black Americans. Young people poured into Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to register Black voters. Half of them were Jewish. Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered along with African American activist James Chaney because of their work. The connection between Jewish and Black history resonated with Dr. Martin Luther King, who to…