"Professor Martin spent some time delineating a racist theory present in the Talmud," he said. "When Jews study the Talmud today they are not taught [such] theories."

In his speech, Martin used quotes from figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Trollope, David Hume and George Hegel to illustrate what he called the prevalence of racism.

"As long as Black people are lacking in power we will always be subject to the Herrnsteins, the Murrays, the Jeffersons," he said.

Martin was tenured at Wellesley College in 1975 and assumed a full professorship in 1979.

Martin's decision to include Leonard Jeffries' controversial book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews in his history class reading, as well as the publication of his own book, drew criticism from students and faculty at Wellesley College

The Wellesley history department also refused to grant history credit for Martin's course, which was offered in the Africans department.

Martin released The Jewish Onslaught in 1993 in his own defense, he said.

"The press release against me, I now realize, is a classic textbook case study of organized Jewish intimidation," he wrote in the book.

After its release, Martin's book drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish leaders and several prominent academics, including DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The book jacket describes the volume as "a historian's analysis of the escalating Jewish onslaught against Black people.