Carol Weiss King
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Carol Weiss King was a well-known immigration lawyer, renowned for her advocacy in defending the civil rights of immigrants, key founder of the International Juridical Association, and a founding memb
King in 1939
Barnard College class of 1913
Harry Bridges (1935), whom King defended
Carol Weiss King's client Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, shown here (center) in 1913 photo with Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan and Carlo Tresca left and Adolph Lessig and Bill Haywood right
Isaac Shorr
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Isaac Shorr was a 20th-century American immigration and naturalization lawyer and philosophical anarchist who worked with other important, radical lawyers in the 1920s–1940s and whose legal partners i
Carol Weiss King
…subscriptions. That same year, she had formed a "loose partnership" with radical attorneys. These included Joseph R. Brodsky, Swinburne Hale, Walter Nelles, Isaac Shorr, and Walter Pollak. One of Carol Weiss King's first and most durable relationships was with Pollak, a onetime partner of Benjamin Cardozo, whom she met…
Engraving by Walter Crane of executed "Anarchists of Chicago" after the Haymarket affair (1886), an event that affected Shorr and many in his generation
New York University School of Law's Vanderbilt Hall, where Shorr studied
Clarence Darrow circa 1925, whom Shorr helped defend two Italian anti-fascists in 1927