An attorney who represented the late Martin Luther King in the South during the 1960s will talk about the period at the Chestertown Library on Saturday, Feb. 18.
He is Alvin J. Bronstein, who served as chief staff counsel 1964-1968 for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee in Jackson, Miss. Bronstein litigated civil rights cases in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana while representing the major civil rights organizations working in the South. Twice, he bailed Dr. King out of jail.
Following that time, he was appointed a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1972 till 1995, he turned his efforts to prisoner rights and correctional law, heading a division of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1989 Bronstein was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for this work.
He will be introduced by the Rev. Ellsworth Tolliver, who was active in civil rights efforts in Kent County during the 1960s.
The Kent County League of Women Voters is co-sponsoring the talk with the county library.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. and include music by God’s Wealth and a light lunch.
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