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May 18, 2020 · In 1967, an unknown 38-year-old civil rights activist from New York took it upon himself to change the world, and then he did. Allard Lowenstein, a Yale-educated lawyer who had steadfastly...
May 7, 2024 · Allard K. Lowenstein (born January 16, 1929, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died March 14, 1980, New York, New York) was an American scholar, political activist, and diplomat who was known for his unceasing fight against injustice in many forms, evidenced by his participation in such causes as antiapartheid, civil rights, and antiwar protests.
Mar 15, 1982 · By Carla Hall. March 14, 1982 at 7:00 p.m. EST. "Can you imagine," Rep. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) asked the audience in the Cannon Caucus room, "what Al Lowenstein would have done when he had found out...
March 15, 1980. The senseless and violent death of Allard K. Lowenstein has cut short a life devoted to reason and justice. From the sit-ins to the campuses to the halls of Congress, Al Lowenstein was a passionate fighter for a more humane, more democratic world.
In chronicling the career of political activist and former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein, this documentary vividly recreates the civil rights and antiwar struggles that raged through the last two decades of American history, in the process giving us a moving and inspiring portrait of a man who played a key role in organizing those mo...
Nov 22, 1993 · A professor of history at Duke University and the author of "The American Woman," among many other books, he develops a theory that what lay beneath Allard Lowenstein's prodigious talents as...
Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980) was an American academic and Democratic politician who orchestrated the downfall of president Lyndon Johnson in 1968. From a Jewish family in New Jersey, Lowenstein studied in North Carolina then graduated with a law degree from Yale.
