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About Philip Hirschkop
- Philip Jay Hirschkop (born May 14, 1936) is a lawyer who "started his career at the top" by taking on Mildred and Richard Loving as clients in a landmark case (Loving v.
- Virginia) that ended the enforcement of state bans on interracial marriage.
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) assigned the case to him and fellow volunteer cooperating attorney Bernard S.
- Cohen.
- Before the Supreme Court, Hirschkop and Cohen were permitted to share the oral argument for the petitioners.Hirschkop went on to argue two additional cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970s.
- Other clients have included Martin Luther King Jr., H.
- Rap Brown, Norman Mailer, the American Nazi Party, PETA, and "numerous anti-war protesters during the 1960s and 1970s." Hirschkop has served on the ACLU's national Board of Directors and as Chair of the ACLU of Virginia, which he helped found in 1969.
- He also served as executive director of the Penal Reform Institute.
- He has been a member of the Virginia State and Washington D.C.
- bars.
- In the 1960s, after the McCarthy era, he served as the vice chair of the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, which now is the Defending Dissent Foundation.
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