Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a Jewish civil rights group headquartered in New York City. The ADL fights against racism and all other types of bigotry.

History

The ADL was founded in September 1913 by the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, a Jewish service organization, in the wake of the lynching of Leo Frank. ADL subsequently split from B'nai B'rith, continuing as an independent US section 501(c)(3) nonprofit. In an early campaign, ADL and its allied groups pressured the American engineer and businessman Henry Ford, who had published anti-Jewish propaganda.Blakeslee, Spencer (2000).The Death of American Antisemitism. Praeger/Greenwood. , p. 83. 

In the 1930s, ADL worked with the American Jewish Committee (AJC) to oppose pro-Nazi activities in the United States. It also opposed McCarthyism in the 1950s, and campaigned for major civil rights legislations in the 1960s. In addition, it worked with the NAACP to discredit the far right in a spy operation. In the 1980s, it was involved in propaganda against Nelson Mandela of South Africa before embracing him the following decade.

Related pages

 StopAntisemitism
 Center for Research on Antisemitism
 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
 POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
 Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

References

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