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Ernst, Morris

Born: 1888 AD
Died: 1976 AD, at 87 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Lawyers

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1888 - Born on the 26th of January.

1915 - He co-founded the law firm Greenbaum.

1917 - He helped found the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which would later
            become the American Civil Liberties Union.

1933 - He successfully defended James Joyce's banned novel "Ulysses" against obscenity charges.

1940 - He served as a head of the American Civil Liberties Union.

        - He agreed to bar communist from employment there and even discouraged their membership.

1976 - He died in this year.






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