Faith Seidenberg was an attorney and civil rights activist who was best known for having entered the male-only establishment McSorley's Old Ale House in Manhattan with fellow attorney Karen DeCrow on August 10,1969.
12 Facts About Faith Seidenberg
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Faith Seidenberg was born Faith Lenore April in Manhattan on October 21,1923.
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Faith Seidenberg attended Calhoun School in New York and then Syracuse University.
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Faith Seidenberg later attended Syracuse Law School, graduating in 1954 as one of only two women in the class.
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Faith Seidenberg started her career in Syracuse as a public defender.
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Faith Seidenberg spent two summers in Mississippi and Louisiana, following which she became an attorney for the Congress of Racial Equality.
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Faith Seidenberg defended Bruce Dancis, a draft-card burner at Cornell University, during the time of the Vietnam War.
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Faith Seidenberg was at one point a national vice president for the National Organization for Women.
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Faith Seidenberg was on the Executive Board of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she established the Women's Legal Defense Fund of the ACLU.
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Faith Seidenberg is best known, though, for her landmark legal case against McSorley's Old Ale House.
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Faith Seidenberg's papers covering the time that she served as vice president of the National Organization for Women, are held at the Harvard Library.
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Faith Seidenberg served as president of the Greater Syracuse chapter of NOW.