ABSTRACT
William Moses Kunstler had always been an advocate for civil rights and civil liberties; in fact, he assisted a city program in summer 1954 by hosting a visitor from the inner city. The negative reaction of his Westchester County neighbors was an awakening. He dedicated his entire legal career to fighting for the civil rights and civil liberties of the American people, no matter if these rights and liberties were unpopular at the time. After the Chicago Seven trial, Kunstler represented many other counterculture figures who were prosecuted, in part, for what the establishment deemed aberrant political beliefs. Kunstler was at the forefront of prison reforms that expanded the civil rights and civil liberties of countless numbers of inmates. Kunstler had become a much sought- after speaker as well. He spoke primarily at college campuses about the need to become active in defending the rights and liberties that all Americans should enjoy.
