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History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights > Other civil rights activists > Richard Barry Sobol    1937-2020

 

 

Mr. Sobol’s booking photo after he was thrown in jail on bogus charges in 1967

while representing a black defendant who had been denied a jury trial

after being charged with assault for touching a white youth’s arm.

 

Photograph:

Plaquemines Parish Louisiana Prison,

via Associated Press

 

Richard Sobol, Civil Rights Lawyer in the South, Dies at 82

Unlike other Northern lawyers who joined the struggle in the South,

he stayed, and won a landmark case.

NYT

April 23, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/
us/richard-sobol-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Sobol with his former client Gary Duncan

in 2016 in Venice, La.

 

Mr. Sobol represented Mr. Duncan

in a 1966 case that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision

that established the right to a jury trial in state criminal cases.

 

Photograph:

Anne Sobol/Anne Sobol, via Associated Press

 

Richard Sobol, Civil Rights Lawyer in the South, Dies at 82

Unlike other Northern lawyers who joined the struggle in the South,

he stayed, and won a landmark case.

NYT

April 23, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/
us/richard-sobol-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Barry Sobol    1937-2020

 

Unlike

other Northern lawyers

who joined

the struggle in the South,

he stayed,

and won a landmark case.

 

In 1966,

on a swampy strip

of land south

of New Orleans,

a young black man

named Gary Duncan

was defusing

a potential fight

between

white and black teenagers

outside a newly integrated school

when he touched an arm

of one of the white boys,

who recoiled.

 

The police later

arrested Mr. Duncan

on a charge of battery.

 

His request

for a jury trial

was denied,

and he was sentenced

to 60 days in prison

and fined $150.

 

Mr. Duncan

and his mothe

asked a young,

white civil rights lawyer,

Richard Sobol

to represent him,

which he did.

 

Mr. Sobol

fought the case

all the way

to the United States

Supreme Court.

 

In a landmark

1968 decision,

the court ruled

for Mr. Duncan

and established

the right to a jury trial

in state criminal cases.

 

The ruling

was a major victory

for the civil rights movement

and for Mr. Sobol,

who was 29 at the time

and just beginning

his legal career.

 

Over the next half-century,

he would file

scores of challenges

involving racial

and sexual discrimination

in employment, education,

voting and housing.

 

He became one

of the nation’s busiest

and most successful

— if unsung —

champions of civil rights.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/
us/richard-sobol-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/
us/richard-sobol-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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