Clarence Darrow has been called the Attorney for the Damned. In his long legal career as a courtroom lawyer, he defended African Americans, murderers, communists, anarchists, labor radicals, socialists, and iconoclastic classroom teachers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Darrow, Clarence (1857–1938)]
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