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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Israel Dresner 1929-2022
Rabbi Israel S. Dresner, left, in an undated photo while campaigning for civil rights in the South. (The others were not identified.) He endured multiple jailings for the cause.
Photograph: Frank E. Noel via Florida State Archives
Rabbi Israel Dresner, Civil Rights Champion and King Ally, Dies at 92 He was jailed multiple times in the South during the 1960s and made human rights his lifelong cause, following the Jewish doctrine of “tikkun olam” — to repair the world. NYT Jan. 27, 2022, 1:05 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/
Rabbi Dresner outside a Tallahassee, Fla., courthouse in June 1961 with two other Freedom Riders, part of the so-called Tallahassee 10, who were arrested trying to integrate an airport restaurant.
With him, from left, were the Rev. A.L. Hardge and the Rev. Robert Storm.
Photograph: Associated Press
Rabbi Israel Dresner, Civil Rights Champion and King Ally, Dies at 92 He was jailed multiple times in the South during the 1960s and made human rights his lifelong cause, following the Jewish doctrine of “tikkun olam” — to repair the world. NYT Jan. 27, 2022, 1:05 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/
Israel Seymour Dresner 1929-2022
Rabbi Israel "Sy" Dresner was one of the earliest Freedom Riders in the 1960s and was close with King.
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four times in the early '60s during the time he spent as a Freedom Rider.
He used to leave his home in northern New Jersey, sometimes driving all night long, to join the nonviolent protests against segregation in the South.
In 1961, he traveled to Tallahassee, Fla., and was arrested and jailed after he and a group of Blacks and whites tried to integrate an airport restaurant.
He was later the named petitioner in a legal case challenging the arrest that made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/16/
He was jailed multiple times in the South during the 1960s and made human rights his lifelong cause, following the Jewish doctrine of “tikkun olam” — to repair the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/16/
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