Pro-communist, civil rights legal defenses of Harry Bridges, Gerhart Eisler, J. Peters
Notable work
American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, International Labor Defense, International Juridical Association, National Lawyers Guild
Spouse
Gordon Congdon King
Children
son
Parent(s)
Samuel Weiss, Carrie Stix
Family
William Stix Weiss; Nina Henrietta Weiss Stern, Louis Stix Weiss
Carol Weiss King (24 August 1895 – 22 January 1952)[1] was a well-known immigration lawyer, renowned for her advocacy in defending the civil rights of immigrants, key founder of the International Juridical Association, and a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild in the United States.[2] Her left-leaning career spanned from the Palmer Raids to the McCarthy Era.[1][3][4]
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Ginger, Ann Fagan (1993). Carol Weiss King, human rights lawyer, 1895-1952. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-285-8. LCCN 92040157.
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Thompson, Craig (17 February 1951). "The Communists's Dearest Friend". Saturday Evening Post. pp. 30, 90–93.
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"Guide to the Carol Weiss King FOIA Files TAM 394". New York University. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
CarolWeissKing (24 August 1895 – 22 January 1952) was a well-known immigration lawyer, renowned for her advocacy in defending the civil rights of immigrants...
CarolKing may refer to: Carole King (born 1942), American singer, songwriter and pianist CarolWeissKing (1895–1952), progressive American human rights...
Ginger does not mention him as a mentor of CarolWeissKing in her biography of King, Ginger does say that King formed a "loose partnership" with radical...
partners included: Swinburne Hale, Walter Nelles, Joseph R. Brodsky, and CarolWeissKing. Isaac Shorr was born about 1882 in Russia (at that time, the Russian...
Tamiment Library, Schneiderman appears in collections including those of: CarolWeissKing, Gil Green, Samuel Adams Darcy, and Max Schachtman. Everything for...
months for refusing to submit names of contributors. In January 1952, CarolWeissKing, general counsel, died. From 1955 to 1957, the committee faced a charge...
an association of socially minded American lawyers, established by CarolWeissKing and considered by the U.S. federal government (in the form of the U...
Joseph R. Brodsky, Swinburne Hale, Walter Nelles, Isaac Shorr, CarolWeissKing, and King's brother-in-law Carl Stern. In 1925, on behalf of the American...
left-wing attorneys, including Joseph R. Brodsky, Swinburne Hale, CarolWeissKing, and Isaac Shorr. The firm support legal investigations published in...
of the government. Original lawyers included: Abraham L. Pomerantz, CarolWeissKing, Victor Rabinowitz, Michael Begun, Harold I. Cammer, Mary Kaufman,...
before the U.S. Supreme Court in Bridges v. Wixon with the help of CarolWeissKing and her recruit, Nathan Greene who penned the brief. Later that month...
Lawyers Security League, ACLU attorney Osmond Fraenkel, IJA-US founder CarolWeissKing, and union lawyer Henry Sacher. The group agreed on an aim to unite...
McDonald). Weiss was also lauded for his performances in regional productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus, A Christmas Carol, Harvey, Moliere's...
ISBN 9780593134047. "Black Red Freed", Time, May 3, 1937. Ginger, Ann Fagan (1993). CarolWeissKing, human rights lawyer, 1895-1952. Boulder: University Press of Colorado...
Bryn Mawr College. Binger himself was a friend of Louis Weiss, brother of CarolWeissKing. King was a member of the International Juridical Association...
Union (Isadore Englander), and CPUSA labor secretary John Williamson (CarolWeissKing). Pressman went on to join Joseph Forer, a Washington-based attorney...
overthrow" of the government. The other lawyers were: Abraham L. Pomerantz, CarolWeissKing, Michael Begun, Harold I. Cammer, Mary Kaufman, Leonard Boudin, and...
in Guilford, Maryland, they joined the Homewood Friends Meeting. CarolWeissKing's biographer Ann Fagan Ginger describes Kovner as "very bright, able...
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