Abstract
African American and Jewish people were run over, mauled and dragged by a fast moving train thirtyfive years ago. Sadly, during the intervening years we have been so incapacitated that we do not have a description of the train, its direction or its final destination. Only now, after several years, Dillard University and the New Orleans Jewish Community are attempting to assemble the pieces. Not until we understand more clearly what happened to the coalition forged between African Americans and Jews can we address this issue.