Charles S. Zimmerman, vice-president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, received the first Human Rights awards from the Workmen’s circle, Jewish labor fraternal organization, at the group’s Labor Day encampment yesterday.
Mr. Zimmerman was granted the award for his work as chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee’s anti-discrimination department. Mr. Marshall was cited for his work as attorney in the school segregation cases which finally resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision outlawing school segregation.
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