What were the National Catholic Welfare Council and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith lobbying for in the 1920s?

a. Laws prohibiting discrimination against immigrants by employers, colleges, and government agencies.

b. Benevolent societies for religious groups to be supported by the federal government in the major East Coast cities.

c. A stronger effort by the federal government to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan.

d. More Catholic and Jewish schools funded by federal monies.

e. A new immigration law to overturn the Immigration Act of 1924.

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Elvis Farmer

14 October, 17:14

What were the National Catholic Welfare Council and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith lobbying for in the 1920s?

a. Laws prohibiting discrimination against immigrants by employers, colleges, and government agencies.

b. Benevolent societies for religious groups to be supported by the federal government in the major East Coast cities.

c. A stronger effort by the federal government to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan.

d. More Catholic and Jewish schools funded by federal monies.

e. A new immigration law to overturn the Immigration Act of 1924.

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Aidan · Answer 1

Option A.

Explanation:

Laws prohibiting discrimination against immigrants by employers, colleges, and government agencies, is the right answer.

B'nai B'rith International is the earliest Jewish assistance structure in the world. It asserts that it is confined to the protection and continuation of the Jewish population and the State of Israel and fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice. Its purpose is to combine men and women of the Jewish religion and to intensify Jewish status by encouraging Jewish household experience, to implement broad-based co-operation for the advantage of senior civilians, and to promote espousal and business on account of Jews everywhere the world.