Word: hirschkop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street lawyers and Ivy League law professors opened their wallets. A foundation put up $2,000; the American Civil Liberties Union contributed free office space in Manhattan. At Columbia, more than 300 students from 15 law schools attended the council's first big meeting. In Washington, Students Hirschkop (now a Virginia lawyer handling a key miscegenation case) and Richard Granat (Columbia '65) got the council declared tax-exempt in a record-breaking ten days - and helped attract another $75,000 in foundation money in the process...
...When I saw those women and children being knocked down by fire hoses," remembers Philip Hirschkop (George town Law '64), "I knew that I would be in this thing for a long time." By fall, ten summer veterans had banded to gether. Howard Slater (Yale Law '66) recalls "our common revulsion" at the campus attitude back home. "Law stu dents seemed so preoccupied with success as measured in dollars, with the study of law as an academic game rather than as a tool for social justice...
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