With the recent passing of Charles Wittenstein at age 85, we have lost a venerable civil rights attorney who helped shape the New South and the city of Atlanta. He spent his entire career fighting discrimination of all kindsdiscrimination against African-Americans, Jews and others who were downtroddenand his crusade in unmasking the Ku Klux Klan led to the near-demise of that hate group.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Charles graduated from Columbia University and Columbia Law School with honors. But in those days it was nearly impossible for a Jewish law graduate to obtain a job with many major law firms in New York. So Charles instead cast his lot with not-for-profit civil rights organizations, first with the American Jewish Committee and then with the Anti-Defamation League, for which he served as Southern Region Counsel for 20 years, until he retired in 1994.
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