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American Jewish Committee
U.S. Jewish advocacy group
American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an American Jewish civil rights and advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. The oldest Jewish defence organization and one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations in general, it was founded in response to the extensive pogroms then occurring in Russia and initially also advocated a liberal United States immigration policy. The New York Times has characterized it as "widely regarded as the dean of American Jewish organizations". The AJC has consistently opposed antisemitism in the United States and internationally and has worked to protect the civil liberties of Jews. Since the Second World War, its concern with civil liberties has also extended to non-Jewish groups, and it has opposed broader forms of discrimination and promoted social equality in the United States. Among its activities in the civil rights movement, it filed an amicus curiae brief in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education and participated in other civil-rights initiatives...
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