(1911–98), secretary, Chicago Fair Employment Practice Council; member, Industrial Council of Chicago Urban League; secretary, National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee (NCPFEPC) (1943); executive director, Bureau of Jewish Employment Problems, Chicago; consultant, Region VI, FEPC; candidate for regional director, Region VI, FEPC; director, National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (1945–76); member, Executive Committee, Joint Committee on Civil Rights (JCCR); secretary, Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization (1950); a founder and secretary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (1950–80); a planner of 1963 March on Washington; founder and president, Education Fund, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (1980–98). A Harvard educated supporter of A. Philip Randolph’s proposed 1941 March on Washington, he participated in a 1949 civil rights conference. In 1953, he attended a meeting between a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Contracts (CGC) and numerous interest groups.
