Background
Ruchames was born on May 25, 1917 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Sam and Yetta (Schaeffer) Ruchames.
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Murderer? Madman? Martyr? In the hundred and ten years since John Brown was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, for his desperate attack on Harpers Ferry, the controversy and the legend have grown to superhuman proportions. As a symbol of rebellion, liberty, civil war, retributive violence, the voice of the oppressed, John Brown has proved a major force in American thought, an increasingly powerful figure in the cause of popular uprisings and militant justice for whites and blacks. This volume presents the positive impact of the man upon American life. Here, in his own words, is the man behind Harpers Ferry, the man behind the literary heritage of poets and writers his legend inspired-revealing the nature of his mind and character, his beliefs and hopes, through letters to his family, friends, business associates, and other writings. Here too is the evidence of men who knew John Brown or who had the opportunity to observe him closely and learn some important aspect of his life and work. Among them are Brown's children, members of his company on the raid, witnesses at his trial, as well as black leader Frederick Douglass, Abolitionists Theodore Parker and Wendell Phillips, writers Emerson and Thoreau. Today it behooves every responsible citizen to understand the significance of John Brown in his day and his meaning for modern America in a time of great civil discontent; he speaks to a nation at the crossroads of change. His work toward the goal of racial equality and freedom is still unfinished.
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1969
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The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive Slave Act, a federal bill that not only sent runaway slaves hack to angry masters but threatened the liberty of all free blacks, Despite such provocation, Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance during this period, though he continued to advocate the emancipation of slaves. Garrison's writings also reflect the interests of his times. He engaged in lively correspondence with fellow countrymen Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Parker, and Stephen S. Foster. In a long letter to Louis Kossuth, he challenges that Hungarian patriot's stand of opposing tyranny in Europe while ignoring slavery in America. Set against a background of wide-ranging travels throughout the western United States and of family affairs back home in Boston, Garrison's letters of this decade make a distinctive contribution to antebellum life and thought.
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1976
Ruchames was born on May 25, 1917 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Sam and Yetta (Schaeffer) Ruchames.
Ruchames graduated from City College of New York in 1937 and Jewish Institute of Religion. Three years later he earned his Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1951 from Columbia University.
Ruchames began his career as a director of the B`nai B`rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Alabama in 1943. A year later he took the same position of the B`nai B`rith Hillel Foundation at Smith College and at the University of Massachusetts, where he worked for twenty-two years.
Then in 1966, Louis became a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts and held it until 1976. He was a visiting lecturer in history at Smith College in 1962-1963 and again from 1965 to 1966. Also Ruchames held the same position at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst between 1963-1964.
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1976Ruchames was a member of the Southern Historical Associations, Organisation for American Historians, American Civil Liberties Union and Association for Study of Negro Life and History. He was a chairman of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.
On August 22, 1943 Louis Ruchames married Miriam Lantz. They have a son and a daughter.