banned it with its ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, which was handed down while I was a student at Hanley Junior High School.  My graduating Class of 1957 at U. City High had the first African-American graduate.  In the following years U. City became fully integrated, both its schools and the community.  Under the strong and enlightened leadership of the late former U. City Mayor, U. City handled the transition in an exemplary manner, and the community thrives today.
 
At Washington University, where I received my undergraduate degree in 1961 and my Doctor of Law degree in 1964, I was fortunate enough to be editor of Student Life, the undergraduate student newspaper and later of The Writ, the law school student newspaper.  In both positions, I editorialized and advocated for the integration of the restaurants serving the Washington U. students, and also strongly supported the integration of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansss and throught the South.  During that period, the University of Mississippi was integrated and then Gov. Orval Faubus and later Gov. George Wallace fought integration.
 
At Washinton U., I wa a member of the Missouri Pi Chapter of Pi Lambda Phi social fraternity, which became the first on the campus to admit an African-American member.  There were some instances in which our fraternity members were refused service at some St. Louis restaurants, which brought home the injustice of discrimination in a direct way.  All of  us were moved and inspired by the efforts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and the degree to which members of the Jewish community supported the movement.  We were espeically proud that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched with Dr. King and said that he felt he was "praying with my feet" when he did so.  We also recall the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, when civil rights students Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner and James  Chaney, two Jews and an African-American were brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.
 
When I graduated from law school, I was hired by Lawrence K. Roos, who was then serving as St. Louis County Supervisor.  Larry Roos, who was Jewish, strongly believed in equal rights for all, and assigned me to staff the St. Louis County Human Relations Commission, which enforces the County ordinances which ban discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and its hate crime which provides an enhanced penalty for crimes motivated by hate.  I have been associated with the Commisssion as staff person, member or Chairman since 1964, which is probably a national record.  I am currently still serving as Chairman  of the seven-member Commission, and have been reappointed by every County Supervisor since Larry Roos:  Gene McNary, H. Milford, Buzz Westfall and Charles Dooley.
 
One of the accomplishments of my days with Larry Roos was the paving of various neglected streets which served small African-American enclaves in the County, inc;uding Kinloch, Meacham Park, Robertson, Elmwood Acres and Westland Acres.  I am proud I can show my kids and grandkids something "concrete" I helped bring about--with the help of some funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity through the Human Development Coroporation (War on Poverty agencies).
 
I have also served as President of Legal Advocates for Abused Women, the St. Louis