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Faith in the city: preaching radical social change in Detroit Author	Angela D. Dillard Edition	illustrated Publisher	University of Michigan Press, 2007 ISBN 0472032070, 9780472032075


 * Maurice Sugar:law, labor, and the left in Detroit, 1912-1950, by Christopher H. Johnson (complete text of book)

Maurice Sugar died February 15, 1974. Born Brinley, MI, 1891, son of Russian immigrants. Had rural, hunting childhood, then attended Central High in Detroit, captain JV football team, co-editor literary magazine. Introduced to socialism at U of M in Ann Arbor by Professor Otto Marckwardt, joined Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Admitted to bar, married Jane Mayer, active in Socialist Party, representing Detroit Typographic Union. Wrote pamphlet 1916 on class character of injunctions against picketing. Refused to register for WWI draft. Indicted, convicted & sentenced to a year in prison. Disbarred. Readmitted 1923 through efforts of Frank Murphy (later MI governor and US Supreme Court justice). Worked for many AFL locals. Conducted annual deer hunting parties and venison dinners for many years. Visited USSR in 1933 and made nationwide US lecture tour of 40 cities after return. Involved in National Lawyer's Guild from earliest days. Represented Ford Hunger Marchers. Served for many years as UAW general counsel. Defended James Victory, black man charged with assaulting a white woman. Retired from active practice 1950, and lived on Black Lake in northern MI. Stayed active in National Lawyer's Guild in retirement. Source - forward written by Ernest Goodman to Sugar's The Ford Hunger March, published 1980 by Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute. Goodman, an attorney, knew Sugar well from 1937 on.