| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1960. By Raymond A. Mohl with Matilda "Bobbi" Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xii, 263 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2693-8.)
Recovering in Miami's Mercy Hospital after giving birth to her third daughter on August 24, 1954, Matilda "Bobbi" Graff was served a subpoena to appear before a grand jury investigating southern "subversion." Her "crime" was being a white, northern-born, Jewish woman organizer in the Miami branch of the radical Civil Rights Congress during the era of McCarthyism. She fled Miami to avoid arrest but went on to fifty years of peace and social justice activism.	1
In South of the South, Raymond A. Mohl brings together and interprets the stories and documents produced by Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), two radical Jewish women active in Miami's civil rights movement from 1945 to 1960. He uses their activist careers to argue that Miami, despite its liberal veneer as America's vacation playground, "linked white racism, anti-Semitism, and anticommunism" (p. 29) in a virulent brew that "set back the movement for racial equality by a decade or more" (p. 61). A small but audacious radical black-Jewish civil rights alliance could not overcome the repression.	. . .

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