Power of Protest: The Movement to Free Soviet Jews

With the refrain “let my people go!,” American Jews launched one of the most successful human rights campaigns in the 20th century. Ordinary citizens took on a grassroots effort to demand freedom for Soviet Jews denied the right to speak, write, worship, work, or depart the Soviet state – and all before the internet, social media, or a 24-hour news cycle. 

Inspired by the civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements of the 1960s, students, community leaders, and tens of thousands of people mobilized to free Soviet Jews. Organized by the National Museum of American Jewish History.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website