Lewis M. Steel
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Lewis M. Steel
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Lewis M. Steel is an American civil rights attorney and author who was co-lead counsel of the legal team that freed the boxer Rubin Carter and John Artis after they were wrongly convicted of murder. While working for the NAACP during the 1960s, he worked to desegregate public schools in the North. In 1971 he joined other civil rights lawyers, including William Kunstler, and New York Times columnist Tom Wicker, to negotiate a settlement of the Attica Prison riot. He was the lead attorney in Avagl
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American civil rights attorney
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_M._Steel
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2024-04-11T00:05:17Z
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