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Article: Kunstler, William Moses
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KUNSTLER, WILLIAM MOSES
William Moses Kunstler rose to prominence during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He represented Freedom Riders, martin luther king jr., and the chicago eight. Politics and the law are inseparable in his philosophy. He was the author of twelve books, a sometime Hollywood actor, and a cofounder of the center for constitutional rights (CCR) in Tennessee.
Even as a child, Kunstler liked trouble. He was born July 7, 1919, in New York City, the eldest of three children of Frances Mandelbaum and Monroe B. Kunstler, a physician. Ignoring schoolwork to run with a street gang called the Red Devils, he worried his conservative Jewish family. He read voraciously ...