Hi there! I’m a high school student who is currently writing a senior paper on Jewish history. The topic I’m specifically writing on is the relationship between Jews and African Americans during the civil rights movement and immediately prior. Some questions I’m hoping to answer are—were jews majority pro or anti the civil rights movement? What actions did they take to further or halt the movement? Did the Jewish experience with oppression add to the Jewish motivation in the movement? What did the public think of the Jewish impact in the movement?

Currently I’m in the stage of reading my sources and taking notes on them. My sources are listed below:

Clark, Kenneth B. “Candor about Negro-Jewish Relations.” Commentary 2, no. 2 1946: 8-14.

Dinnerstein, Leonard. “American Jews and the Civil Rights Movement.” Reviews in American History 30, no. 1, 2002: 136-140. doi:10.1353/rah.2002.0008.

Dinnerstein, Leonard. "Southern Jewry and the Desegregation Crisis, 1954–1970." American Jewish Historical Quarterly 62, no. 3, 1973: 231-41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23877999.

Fiebert, Martin. “Collaboration and Conflict. Five Phases in Jewish and Black Relations: An Examination of Tensions Between the Two Communities from before the Civil War to the Late 1990's.” International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities no. 1, 2011: 90-121.

Friedman, Murray. What Went Wrong?: The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Glazer, Nathan. “Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism.” Commentary 38, no. 6, 1964.

Hardy, Rachel. “African American – Jewish Relations in the 1960s: Struggling to find Common Ground.” Charleston: College of Charleston. Chrestomathy 10, no. 8, 2011: 1-26.

Kristol, Irving. “The Political Dilemma of American Jews.” Commentary Magazine, 1984.

Lang, Kurt and Lang, Gladys Engel. “Resistance to School Desegregation: A Case Study of Backlash Among Jews.” Sociological Inquiry 35, 1965: 94-106. doi:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1965.tb00593.x

Mohl, Raymond A. "‘South of the South?’ Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960." Journal of American Ethnic History 18, no. 2 (1999): 3-36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27502414.

Schultz, Debra L. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Svonkin, Stuart. Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties. New York City, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

I’m posting here with a few questions I’m struggling to answer, and with my school on break, my professor is unavailable.

1. Some sources are hidden behind a paywall, specifically for me, Commentary Magazine and some JSTOR articles. How can I access them without paying because my professor specifically noted to not pay the paywall on this assignment.

2. What is the most effective note taking strategy for these sources?

3. Are there opinions I should have prior to thoroughly reading these or do I go in without prior convictions?

Thank you so much in advance Historians of reddit!!!