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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.
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.
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.
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, […]
25 giu 1985 · Melvyn R. Leventhal, who practiced civil rights law in Mississippi from 1967 to 1974, now practices in Manhattan.
21 nov 2020 · She met fellow civil rights worker Melvyn R. Leventhal in 1965 and they married on March 17, 1967, in New York City. The couple moved back to Jackson, where they were the first legally married biracial couple in the city.
