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Ford's first cabinet nominations rise from civil rights to justice
James T. Wooten profiles William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. and Edward Hirach Levi as Ford's nominees for secretary of transportation and attorney general. Coleman, a Philadelphia lawyer and NAACP leader, helped end school segregation and advance civil rights, while Levi, University of Chicago president, faced 1968 campus unrest with a calm, analytical approach and strong antitrust expertise.
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Philadelphia
Johnson
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
L.B.J
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr
Ford
Legal and Educational Defense Fund Inc
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Coleman
Supreme Court
White House
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard Law School
Elliot L. Richardson
Court of St. James’s
Richardson
Justice Frankfurter
Harvard
University of Pennsylvania
Army Air Corps
Germantown
New York City
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Levy
William E. Farrell
N.Y. Times News Service
Chicago
University of Chicago
Edward Hirach Levi
Levi
Lee-Vee
Caim
Peru
Philip B. Kurland
Department of Justice
University
Yale
Chicago Tribune
Kate Sulzberger Hecht
John, Davidard Michael
Hyde Park