Frank Wilkinson, Presente!

by Obits Friday, Jan. 06, 2006 at 9:10 AM

Frank Wilkinson, civil liberties activist, died 2 January 2006.

Frank Wilkinson, Presente!

Frank Wilkinson, civil liberties activist, died 2

January 2006, peacefully, and surrounded by family.

Wilkinson was Executive Director Emeritus of the

National Committee Against Repressive Legislation and

Executive Director of the First Amendment Foundation. A

lifelong progressive political activist, Wilikinson was

caught up in the McCarthy Era. Because of his

resistance to political repression, Wilkinson received

the Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty; and the American

Civil Liberties Union Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate

Award, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award, and the

1997 National Lawyers' Guild Legal Worker of the Year.

Author: REVISITING THE "MCCARTHY ERA": LOOKING AT

WILKINSON V. UNITED STATES IN LIGHT OF WILKINSON V.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. Loyola Law School, Los

Angeles, Law Review, v. 32, n.2

[http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v33-issue2/wilkinson.pdf]

Original: Frank Wilkinson, Presente!