Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morgan came at the invitation of Patrick Shea, a personal acquaintance and Mather House's pre-law adviser, who thought the 43-year-old advocate might have a message for prospective lawyers. "I've seen too many students fall into law school because they can't think of anything else to do," Shea said. "I thought Morgan could use his experiences to show them some of the dangers of getting into legal education without a strong personal commitment...
Those "experiences" have taken Morgan before the Supreme Court eight times on issues of individual constitutional rights. And his personal history alone has the makings of a modern American epic...
...Morgan came of age as a lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama, during the years before that city exploded in racial violence. "In Birmingham, I never looked for a civil rights case," Morgan told his student audience. "I wasn't crazy...
Racial tensions in Birmingham culminated in 1963 when four black girls died in the bombing of a black Baptist church. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Morgan delivered a speech denouncing Birmingham's white leadership for encouraging a resort to violence. He soon left town--in the face of threats on his life...
Within a year, Morgan had assumed leadership of the ACLU's Atlanta office, which became a nucleus for ACLU activity in southern civil rights cases during the sixties. From that springboard, Morgan headed the defense in Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which established a precedent for federal intervention in state reapportionment schemes--specifically on the principle of one man, one vote. He also argued White v. Crook (1966), which ended the exclusion of women and blacks from juries. The latter case was the first in the current series of constitutional arguments for women's rights...