Former New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph M Proskauer has been named recipient of the American Liberties Medallion, Irving M. Engel, president of the American Jewish Committee, announced today.
The silver medallion will be presented to Mr. Proskauer, 80, a former AJC president, at the organization’s national executive board meeting in Chicago on October 26. The first medallion award was made in 1955 to Federal Judge Learned Hand and the second, last year to former Sen. Herbert H, Lehman.
Several hundred community leaders will participate in the annual three-day meeting, which will deal with human rights problems in the United States and abroad, including desegregation and anti-Semitism; integration in the North; Israel-Arab relations and the Arab refugees and the problems of Soviet imperialism.
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