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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.
25 giu 1985 · Melvyn R. Leventhal, who practiced civil rights law in Mississippi from 1967 to 1974, now practices in Manhattan.
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 apr 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 ott 2023 · Mel Leventhal wrote this letter to his mother, Miriam Leventhal, and delves into Jewish thought and the growing rift between Mel and his mother over his relationship with Alice Walker, a black non-Jewish woman.
26 dic 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...
