Norman Fruchter

Norman Fruchter is a Jewish American writer, filmmaker, and academic.

He graduated from Rutgers University, in 1959, where he edited the literary magazine,Anthologist.

He was arrested protesting with CORE and James L. Farmer, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Rev. Donald Harrington, and Michael Harrington, at the 1964 New York World's Fair. From 1960 to 1962, he served as assistant to the editor of New Left Review. He was an editor at Studies on the Left, (1959–1967).

He was a member of Newsreel which was founded in 1967.

From 1968 to 1972, Newsreel produced sixty protest films, in New York and then in California. [Robert] Kramer moved to California and participated in the West Coast collectives movement, teaching for a while in San Francisco. In 1969, Kramer, Norman Fruchter and John Douglas produced People's War for Newsreel, shooting in North Vietnam during American bombing.

As part of their mission to instigate social change, members of Newsreel would present films to political organizations and community groups across the United States. The retrospective, Exit Art / The First World had Newsreel members Norman Fruchter, Roz Payne and Lynn Phillips discuss the films. He was a member of SDS along with Tom Hayden, Jesse Allen, Robert Kramer, also full-time organizers for the group: Carol Glassman; Terry Jefferson; Constance Brown; Corinna Fales; and Derek Winans. He was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

He recommended Christine Choy to the Newsreel group, after meeting her at Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.

He was a member of School Board 15, in Brooklyn, and formed Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which sued the city of New York over inadequate school funding. He headed the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University. He commented on the Gates Foundation:

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