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...PEOPLE of our generation have heard of Allard Lowenstein, and that is a shame. A leader of the young and an activist for peaceful change, Lowenstein was rarely out of the headlines during the 60s and 70s for his untiring captaincy of liberal causes. In 1980, at 51 he was the victim of an assassin's bullet. But today Lowenstein is in danger of becoming an unsung hero--one of the many who touched the pages of history but, holding no major office, became, little more than footnotes in political textbooks. Allard Lowenstein should not be relegated to a footnote...
...newly published book of tribute may ensure Lowenstein his deserved place in history. Lowenstein Acts of Courage and Belief is his story told in his own words and in those of such diverse writers as William E. Buckley Jr. Calvin Trillin, Jack Anderson, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. A collection of articles and speeches by and about "the original activist." Acts of Courage and Belief is a moving testimony to a man who became for a time an American political legend...
...ALLARD LOWENSTEIN served only one term in Congress, thought he ran again and again, and less than a year as an ambassador to the United Nations. But somehow the man who as David Halberstam '55 writes, seemed to specialize in causes rather than jobs" managed to mold a great many lives and shape more than one man's share of history. Best known for initiating the Dump Johnson movement in 1967 a movement whose success stunned political leaders. Lowenstein was also one of the first to take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against...
Born in 1929 and a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Yale Law School. Lowenstein first became politically active in the 1950s working with Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt. He went on to organize student activists while a dean at Stanford University and Later served in Congress and as national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). He was the U.S. representative of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and the U.N. Ambassador for Special Political Affairs in 1977. He was a close friend and side of Robert M. Kennedy '48, and was active in the presidential campaigns...
...energy I Lowenstein put into these and other activities was astounding. A man who drank chocolate milkshakes for breakfast as "fuel," he spent the last 30 years of his life "chasing about the globe in the service of causes." He was, as one acquaintance put it, a "one man civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing...