Jews

'No end of trouble': The radical organizing of Durham's Jewish cigarette rollers

September 1, 2022 - When North Carolina tobacco companies began manufacturing cigarettes in the 1880s, they needed skilled rollers, so they turned to Jewish immigrants on strike at cigarette factories in New York City. The bosses thought the workers wouldn't dare organize in the union-hostile South, but they were proven wrong.

Jewish appointees bring religious diversity to the South's state supreme courts

By Billy Corriher

March 29, 2019 - Governors in Florida and North Carolina recently appointed Jewish justices to their state supreme courts — a first for North Carolina. Studies have shown that Jewish judges, as well as those who belong to other religious minorities, tend to rule in favor of religious freedom.

Southern Exposure

Voices from the Past: The expulsion of the Jews from Thomasville, Georgia

By Louis Schmier

November 1, 1984 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. XII No. 6, "Liberating Our Past." Find more from that issue here.

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By Rachelle Saltzman

September 1, 1983 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 11 No.

'No end of trouble': The radical organizing of Durham's Jewish cigarette rollers

Jewish appointees bring religious diversity to the South's state supreme courts

Voices from the Past: The expulsion of the Jews from Thomasville, Georgia

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