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BEVERLY AXELROD, ONE OF THE NATION'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY CIVIL RIGHTS and social justice attorneys, died on June 19, 2002, of emphysema at her home in Pacifica, California, at the age of 78.
Ms. Axelrod, who graduated from Brooklyn Law School when few women attended, dedicated her entire adult life to serving as "a people's lawyer." Her civil rights work in the early 1950s included service with the NAACP in California; representing the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and Cesar Chavez; working for the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) in Louisiana; and acting as counsel for Mississippi voter registration efforts. While doing this work, she also participated in picketing and boycotts.
On the international front, she was...