Mark J. Satter
1916-1965
Chicago lawyer & civil rights activist
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Mark J. Satter was born on February 22, 1916 in the largely Jewish Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago’s West Side, to Yetta Dunkleman and Isaac Satter, the third in a family of six children. After recuperating from a childhood accident that left him greatly immobilized, Satter learned at sixteen that he had a heart murmur. Because of his health problems, instead of pursuing labor-intensive work after high school he enrolled in college to study law, graduating from DePaul College of Law in 1939...
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Materials related to Mark J. Satter's career and life including correspondence, clippings, articles and essays, speeches, legal case work, photographs, materials regarding his involvement with committees and the Chicago Bar Association, and research on wage practices and housing. Also includes sound recordings of radio and television appearances. Personal items include an early autobiography, Satter family correspondence, and works by Satter’s friends and colleagues Warren Lehman and John Ligtenberg, and his son David Satter...
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