The Forgotten Story of the Boxing Champ who Became a US Senator and Fighter for Human Rights.
The Remarkable Career of W. Warren Barbour
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Rafael Medoff
Founding Director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC and Award Winning Author
There can be no peace until human beings everywhere recognize the rights of others less fortunate than they or possess different religious or philosophies to live and work under comparable conditions of comfort and freedom. Tolerance lies at the bottom of the whole problem. Enduring peace will be found only in the doctrine of “live and let live.
•W. Warren Barbour, February 6, 1941
W. Warren Barbour Presentation - The Arts Factory
Born in Monmouth Beach, Sen. W. Warren Barbour served as a councilman and mayor of Rumson before entering Congress. Throughout his life, he was a passionate advocate for equal rights for all citizens. In 1943, he introduced a bill in Congress that would have given refuge in the United States to 600,000 Jews and other minorities targeted by the Nazis for the duration of the war.
