Morris B. Abram, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Morris B. Abram

American civil rights lawyer

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1918

Place of Birth: Fitzgerald, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 16-Mar-2000

Profession: lawyer, diplomat, civil rights advocate

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Morris Berthold Abram (June 19, 1918 – March 16, 2000) was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, and for two years president of Brandeis University.
In 1953 he successfully sought the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Fifth District in Georgia, urging the desegregation of schools but lost the election in 1954.
He may be best remembered as a civil rights attorney who successfully waged a fourteen year struggle from 1949–63 to end a Georgia electoral rule that gave disproportionate weight in primary elections to vote counts in white rural areas at the expense of those cast by urban blacks.
When the rule was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1963, he briefed Attorney General Robert Kennedy who argued the case. The Supreme Court found "within a given constituency there can be room for but one constitutional rule – one voter, one vote."