Robert Ephraim Segal[1][2] (December 11, 1903 – November 18, 1995) was the longtime executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Boston[3] and an activist against discrimination and for human rights.
Segal spent much of his life dealing with fair practices regarding race, religion, education, labor and housing.
[3] As a close correspondent with Archbishop Richard Cushing, Segal played a key role in Jewish-Catholic relations in Boston.
[6] He had a column entitled "As We Were Saying"; he wrote on issues such as bigotry,[7] Israel and the Arabs, ex-Nazis, neo-Nazism and its backers,[8] and the civil rights movement.
[20] In 1947, Segal endorsed the Temporary Displaced Persons Admission Act, a federal law to assist displaced persons in post-World War II Europe and permit the admission of 400,000 of them to the U.S.[21] Segal's activism against discrimination has been recorded at least since the 1940s.