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About Swinburne Hale
Swinburne Hale was an American lawyer, poet, and socialist, best remembered as one of the leading civil rights attorneys of the 1920s. Hale was a Harvard College classmate of Roger Nash Baldwin and law partner of Walter Nelles and Isaac Shorr and was active in the establishment and early work of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Hale also played a role in the progressive politics of the early 1920s as a leading member of the Committee of Forty-Eight and a spokesman for the fledgling Farmer-Labor Party.
Everything about Swinburne Hale →- Occupation
- peace activist, lawyer, poet
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 5, 1884
- Died
- 1937