Bill Taylor was born in 1931, the son of Lithuanian immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, he became an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF); later, he served as staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1965-1968) and founder of the Center ...
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Bill Taylor was born in 1931, the son of Lithuanian immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, he became an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF); later, he served as staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1965-1968) and founder of the Center for National Policy Review.
At LDF, Taylor worked with Thurgood Marshall and his deputy, Robert Carter, to build upon the Brown v. Board of Education victory. Among his other landmark cases, he wrote the Supreme Court brief in Cooper v. Aaron, which led to desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, schools.
He currently serves as chair of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights (www.cccr.org) and as a legal advocate for poor and minority children, among other activities.
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