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Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) 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, […]
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.
22 de mai. de 2024 · "Melvyn R. Leventhal." Oyez, www.oyez.org/advocates/melvyn_r_leventhal. Accessed 22 May. 2024.
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.
28 de out. de 2023 · Mel Leventhal’s Letter to Miriam Leventhal Throughout Jewish history, the topic of intermarriage has been hotly debated: can intermarriage be condoned, or is it a step towards assimilation and loss of Jewish culture?
