In the late 1940s, Einstein became a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), seeing the parallels between the treatment of Jews in Germany and African Americans in the United States.
He corresponded with scholar/activist W.E.B. Du Bois as well as performing artist Paul Robeson and campaigned for civil rights, calling racism a "disease" in a 1946 Lincoln University speech.
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Albert Einstein - Biography
Historical FictionAlbert Einstein was a physicist who developed the general theory of relativity. He is considered one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
