What is
the
Law Students
Clvi' Rights
Research Council?
The LSCRRC is an independent, law-student directed civil rights legal organization,
The LSCRRC places law students in the field in both the North and the South as
legal interns to civil rights attorneys.
The LSCRRC facilitates a program of legal research on civil rights programs.
Why the
LSCRRC?
"The Savannah demonstrations had lead to some six hundred cases to defend, with
the charges including trespassing, unlawful assembly, riot, incitement to insurrection,
and disobeying a police officer. _ . During the course of the summer some twenty–
five leaders of the Savannah movement were jailed on peace warrants. • . There
were two attorneys handling civil rights cases in Savannah dealing with the dropping
of charges and the arrangement for bail."
from the report of a LSCRRC worker in the South
"The
LSCRRC is a sp'endid enterprise.
.."
Eugene V. Rostow, Dean, Yale Law School
". have
no doubt such efforts are
supplying va'uable
assistance
in a
field where
more and better
legal
services are great.y
needed..
."
Phil C. Neal, Dean, University of Chicago Law School
Please Give Us Your Support
Contributions are tax deduetable and should be sent to:
THE LAW STUDENTS CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH COUNCIL
156 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10
CORRECTION:
This should have been the last paragraph of Marie
Syrkin's piece in our Spring
1964
issue.
The ability-barely twenty years after the chimneys stopped smoking
-to transmute the annihilation of European Jewry into a fable, particu–
larly an exhilarating one, bespeaks a frightening detachment rather than
a transcendent spirituality. Earlier in her article Miss McCarthy attacked
commentators more concerned with the memory of Jewish leaders "who
are dead and beyond being hurt" than with the "reputation" of a
"living woman." The same shocking scale of values, according to which
criticism of Miss Arendt's views is equated with the latter's indictment
of a people in its extremity, is revealed in Miss McCarthy's exercise in
sublimation. What Miss McCarthy hears depends on what she does
not
hear. To put it bluntly: only a hard remoteness makes possible the
relishing of Figaro above the roar of the ovens and the discovery of a
satisfying esthetic rationale in the events of Auschwitz. A failure in
symp'athy and imagination should not be confused with a finer moral or
auditory perception.
