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Mitford went to work for Office of Price Administration (OPA) where she met the radical lawyer, Robert Treuhaft, who she married in 1943. They both joined the American Communist Party and were active in the Civil Rights movement. In 1948 they moved to Oakland and Treuhaft joined the legal firm of Oakland, Grossman, Sawyer & Edises.
Robert Treuhaft. Robert Treuhaft, the son of Hungarian immigrants, was born in New York on 8th August 1912. He won a scholarship to Harvard University and later became a lawyer. He developed left-wing political views while working for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. On the outbreak of the Second World War Treuhaft applied to ...
12 de nov. de 2001 · By Rick DelVecchio, Chronicle Staff Writer Nov 12, 2001. Attorney Robert Treuhaft, a pivotal figure in the Bay Area civil rights movement since the 1940s, died in New York City yesterday after a ...
1 de dez. de 2001 · Robert N. Treuhaft. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Search for more papers by this author
16 de nov. de 2001 · Robert Treuhaft, 89; Crusading Attorney. Robert E. Treuhaft, crusading civil rights activist and attorney whose long-standing criticism of the funeral industry helped develop his late wife Jessica ...
1 de abr. de 2011 · After Esmond’s death in World War II, Mitford married Robert Treuhaft, a civil rights and union lawyer. It was the success of The American Way of Death in 1963 that first launched Jessica Mitford into the spotlight as a muckraker.
Background. Robert E. Treuhaft, "a radical left-wing attorney prominent in progressive and New Left politics in the San Francisco Bay Area, was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1912, the oldest child of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. He attended public schools and became the first person from his Brooklyn high school to be admitted to Harvard ...
