Gloria Allred

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Gloria Allred Rachel (* 3. July 1941 in Philadelphia as Gloria Rachel Bloom ) is an American lawyer and civil rights activist .

Life

Gloria Bloom is the daughter of a working class family. She attended Philadelphia High School for Girls and began studying at the University of Pennsylvania . She married Peyton Bray. The daughter, who was born in 1961 and is now a lawyer, Lisa Bloom comes from the soon-to-be-divorced marriage . In 1963, Gloria received a BA in English and became a teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School. At the New York University she still earned a MA, has worked since 1966 at schools in Los Angeles and was active in trade unions in the Los Angeles Teachers Association .

In 1968 she married William Allred and they divorced in 1987. Allred began law school at Southwestern Law School and continued to do so at Loyola Law School , where she graduated with a JD . In 1975 she was admitted to the California bar.

The law firm Allred, Morocco & Goldberg, founded in 1976, has since processed a large number of legal cases, primarily for women in labor law problems, dismissals, cases of sexual harassment and rape. Occasionally, she brought the disputes public in order to defend the interests of her clients more effectively and made repeated appearances on television. Opponents of the litigation were celebrities such as David Boreanaz , Herman Cain , Sacha Baron Cohen , Tommy Lee , Esai Morales , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Anthony Weiner .

In 1981 she demonstrated in public for the liberalization of abortion law and won a libel case against the politician John G. Schmitz . When actress Hunter Tylo was fired from her production company for pregnancy, Allred litigated in a model lawsuit for protection against dismissal for pregnant women. In 2008 she won a landmark lawsuit for same-sex marriage in California .

Among other things, Allred received numerous recognitions for its radio broadcasts, including the 1986 President's Volunteer Service Award. She was also parodied because of her notoriety, for example in the 248th episode of The Simpsons .

In 2019, Allred was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame .

Fonts (selection)

  • Gloria Allred; Deborah Caulfield Rybak: Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight against Injustice and How You Can Win Your Own Battles . New York: ReganBooks, 2006 ISBN 978-0-06-073928-7 Contents (not viewed)

literature

  • Suzanne O'Dea: From suffrage to the Senate: America's political women: an encyclopedia of leaders, causes & issues . Volume 1, A-N. 2nd edition, Millerton, NY: Gray House, 2006 (not viewed)
  • Ashlyn K. Kuersten: Women and the law: leaders, cases, and documents . Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 2003 ISBN 0-87436-878-2 (not viewed)
  • Catharine A. MacKinnon; Andrea Dworkin (Ed.): In harm's way: the pornography civil rights hearings . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 0-674-44578-3 ( Los Angeles Hearing , p. 360) (not viewed)
  • Cathleen Rountree: On women turning 50: celebrating mid-life discoveries . New York, NY: Harper San Francicso, 1993 ISBN 0-06-250668-4 , pp. 63–74 (not viewed)
  • Jia Tolentino: Gloria Allred's Crusade. The attorney takes on Bill Cosby, rape law, and Donald Trump , in: The New Yorker , October 2, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allred, Gloria. In: National Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Allred, Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allred, Gloria Rachel (full name); Bloom, Gloria Rachel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia