Joseph J. Levin Jr.
Joseph J. Levin Jr. · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (1971), a leading US organization litigating against hate groups and for civil rights.
1943, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Montgomery, Alabama; Washington, D.C.
Joseph J. Levin Jr. is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (1971), a leading US organization litigating against hate groups and for civil rights.
Joseph J. Levin Jr. is a Jewish American lawyer who co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971 with Morris Dees. As its first legal director he argued the landmark sex-discrimination case Frontiero v. Richardson before the U.S. Supreme Court and helped build the SPLC into a leading force litigating against hate groups. Witnessing anti-integration persecution as a student shaped his commitment to civil rights.
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Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (1971), a leading US organization litigating against hate groups and for civil rights.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
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