15 Facts About Margold Report

1.

Nathan Ross Margold was a Romanian-born American lawyer.

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2.

Margold Report was a municipal judge in Washington, DC, and the author of the 1933 Margold Report to promote civil rights for African-Americans through the courts.

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3.

Margold Report was a supporter of Native American civil rights.

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4.

Nathan Ross Margold Report was born in Iasi, Romania in 1899, to Wolf Margulies and Rosa Kahan.

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5.

Margold Report was a "protege" of Felix Frankfurter, who interested him in working for social reforms and workers rights.

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6.

From 1925 through 1927 Margold Report served as the assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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7.

Margold Report returned to his private practice in New York City in 1928.

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8.

From 1928 through 1929 Margold Report served as a special counsel for the New York Transit Commission.

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9.

In 1931, Margold wrote a book-length strategy, presenting an outline to desegregate public schools in the south.

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10.

Margold Report received recommendations from Frankfurter and Justice Louis Brandeis and was hired as the solicitor for the United States Department of the Interior.

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11.

Margold Report served in this department from 1933 to 1942, including acting as an aide to Interior Secretary Harold L Ickes.

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12.

Margold Report was then appointed chairman of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board to administer that code, and served in that position from 1933 to 1935.

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13.

In 1940, Margold wrote the introduction to the Handbook of Federal Indian Law by Felix S Cohen.

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14.

Margold Report was a member of the Modern Forum of the League for Peace and Democracy, an organization named as a "Communist front organization" by witnesses during a hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1938.

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15.

Margold Report was then moved to the US District Court in the District of Columbia and served there until his death in 1947.

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