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Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) is an American attorney known for his work as a community organizer and lawyer in the 1960s–70s Civil Rights Movement, and for being the husband of author Alice Walker for ten years; they were the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi history.
In 1965, Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They were married on March 17, 1967, in New York City. Later that year, the couple relocated to Jackson, Mississippi , becoming the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi since miscegenation laws were introduced in the state.
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A native of Brooklyn, New York, Melvyn Roseman Leventhal began his work in the Mississippi civil rights movement in 1965. While attending New York University Law School, he spent summers in Jackson through the Boston-based Law Students Civil Rights Research Council. Upon graduating in 1967 he set up practice in Jackson and married Alice Walker, […]
19 de abr. de 2013 · MELVYN R. LEVENTHAL.
14 de may. de 2024 · "Melvyn R. Leventhal." Oyez, www.oyez.org/advocates/melvyn_r_leventhal. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
23 de abr. de 2022 · She and her now ex-husband, Melvyn Leventhal, who is white and Jewish, moved to Mississippi the same summer the Supreme Court outlawed state bans on interracial marriage. Their daughter,...
