Betty Alschuler

Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, teacher, art historian, and critic Betty Rogers Alschuler Rubenstein attended Smith College in the 1940s and received a doctorate in art history from Florida State University in 1979. In 1962, Alschuler traveled to Albany, Georgia, with a multidenominational and multiracial group of clergy in support of the desegregation efforts of the civil rights movement, and she reported on her experiences for The Reconstructionist. She married theologian and historian Richard Rubenstein in 1966 and was involved in Jewish congregational activities, holding various teaching positions in art history.Editorial note: This text includes hate speech against people of color, even as Alschuler personally explores her own prejudices as a Jew working in the civil rights movement. This text provides insight into Jewish history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote hate speech of any kind.