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...either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded by a dominant race which magnified and deified everything white, while minimizing, depreciating, if not anathematizing, everything black, which hypothesis was for a long time openly and brazenly supported...
Back to New York, city of 1,765,000 Jews and 327,700 Negroes, to a delirious welcome went Lawyer Liebowitz and his four freed Negroes: Willie Roberson, 21, cured of a venereal disease since his 1931 arrest; Eugene Williams, 21, Roy Wright, 20; and semi-blind Olin Montgomery, 24. To Lawyer Liebowitz they were not only four innocent brands plucked from the burning, but four more celebrities added to the roll of 132 accused murderers and others whom Sam Liebowitz boasts of saving from death. He, a Jew, had dared the South's "boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose...
Fame flamed from his footsteps. In 1925, eight years after he had freed his first pickpocket, Al Capone hired Liebowitz in connection with three sociable murders in Brooklyn's Adonis Club. It was on Liebowitz' advice that Capone went to prison for income tax evasions...
...Lawyer Liebowitz ran for district attorney in Brooklyn, promising a vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns...
Bankruptcy laws of today were not part of the old common law. A bankrupt was treated as a criminal. Statutes eventually freed debtors from the fear of prison and by passing through bankruptcy m his own community a man could be released from all his debts anywhere in the U. S. except for taxes and debts for fraud or willful injury. Yet thousands of indebted individuals, because of distaste for bankruptcy or ignorance or inability to take advantage of bankruptcy provisions, have suffered the penalty of having their wages or salaries attached under garnishment proceedings. There were an estimated...