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Melvyn R. Leventhal is an American attorney and civil rights activist who married Alice Walker in 1967, the first interracial couple in Mississippi history. He worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued two cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Melvyn R. Leventhal is a lawyer with expertise in art law, representing galleries, dealers, artists and collectors in New York, London and Geneva. He also has a long history of litigation experience, including arguing cases in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Dec 28, 2000 · Rebecca Walker relates growing up with a Black mother, writer Alice Walker of "The Color Purple", and White father, Melvyn Levanthal, a New York Jewish civil rights lawyer.
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Dec 26, 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 ended.
Jun 25, 1985 · Melvyn R. Leventhal, who practiced civil rights law in Mississippi from 1967 to 1974, now practices in Manhattan.
Apr 19, 2013 · MELVYN R. LEVENTHAL New York, April 15, 2013 The writer is a lawyer. A version of this article appears in print on , Section A , Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Is This...
Aug 17, 2024 · "Melvyn R. Leventhal." Oyez, www.oyez.org/advocates/melvyn_r_leventhal. Accessed 17 Aug. 2024.