Sobol, Richard B.
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Name (Latin)
Sobol, Richard B.
Date of birth
1937-05-29
Date of death
2020-03-24
Field of activity
Civil rights--United States
Human rights--United States
Occupation
Lawyers
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Civil Rights History Project collection, 2010:collection materials, Archive of Folk Culture (Richard Barry Sobol; born 1937-05-29 in the Bronx, NY, attended Union College, BA, Columbia University School of Law, LLB, worked as civil rights attorney in New Orleans and Washington, DC)
- His Bending the law, c1991:CIP t.p. (Richard B. Sobol) t.p. verso (heads his own law firm in Washington, D.C.)
- New York times, Apr. 25, 2020(Richard Sobol; born Richard Barry Sobol May 29, 1937 in Manhattan, died Mar. 24 in Sebastopol, Calif., aged 82; attorney who defended civil rights in the South; following a major 1968 Supreme Court civil rights movement victory when he was only 29, Mr. Sobol spent the next half-century filing scores of challenges involving racial and sexual discrimination in employment, education, voting and housing -- often at great personal risk and threat of violence; practiced primarily in Louisiana and Washington, D.C.); in 1965 Mr. Sobol used vacation time to do a stint with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Louisiana -- and then continued working off and on there to defend civil rights activists until 2013)