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Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) [1] is an American attorney known for his work as a community organizer and lawyer in the 1960s–70s Civil Rights Movement, and for being the husband of author Alice Walker for ten years; they were the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi history.
Deputy First Assistant Attorney General of New York and Chief of Litigation Bureau supervising teams of attorneys litigating hundreds of cases in state and federal courts.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Melvyn Roseman Leventhal began his work in the Mississippi civil rights movement in 1965. While attending New York University Law School, he spent summers in Jackson through the Boston-based Law Students Civil Rights Research Council. Upon graduating in 1967 he set up practice in Jackson and married Alice Walker, […]
19 de abr. de 2013 · Mr. Rankin will soon learn that he has professional obligations not only to his clients but also to the bench, bar and jury. MELVYN R. LEVENTHAL.
21 de nov. de 2020 · There, she volunteered in voter registration drives and worked for the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP. She met fellow civil rights worker Melvyn R. Leventhal in 1965 and they married on March 17, 1967, in New York City. The couple moved back to Jackson, where they were the first legally married biracial couple in the city.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
26 de dic. de 2000 · The first story is a memoir of her marriage to Melvyn Leventhal, a white civil rights lawyer. Each was, she writes, ''a miraculously compatible mate.'' Yet the marriage ended. As she said over...
Born Rebecca Leventhal in 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, she is the daughter of Alice Walker, an African-American writer whose work includes The Color Purple, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a Jewish American civil rights lawyer. Her parents married in New York before going to Mississippi to work in civil rights. [8]
