Word: griswold
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When anti-Communist hysteria reached its peak under McCarthy's one-man Senate committee, Griswold appeared on Edward R. Murrow's well-known television program "See It Now" and denounced the "corruptive investigating practices of headline-seeking Congressional committees...
...when Blacks faced seemingly insurmountable segregation in Southern schools, Griswold served as an expert witness in several of the cases used to lay the foundation for the Supreme Court's desegregation order in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka...
...Griswold also served on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson...
...Griswold] was one of the giants of the American legal education and the American legal profession," said the present Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark...
...Griswold received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oberlin College and then went on to Harvard Law School, serving as president of the Harvard Law Review from 1927 to 1928. He graduated summa cum laude and first in his class in 1928 and received the S.J.D...