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There will be a memorial service held today for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) who died...
...Higginbotham, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, will be remembered for his work in championing civil rights...
Those who knew Higginbotham will have the opportunity to share personal memories...
...bench, he defied racial stereotypes. When officials of a white union defending a job-discrimination case claimed a black civil rights advocate could not objectively preside over it, Higginbotham issued an opinion condemning the subconscious but widely held view that only white judges could decide racial issues fairly...
DIED. A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM JR., 70, esteemed federal judge and scholar; of complications from several strokes; in Boston. Higginbotham, a civil rights advocate who called himself a "survivor of segregation," was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--in 1995 when he retired from the bench (see Eulogy, below...