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Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. (1989)
What Happened to Liberalism on the Way to the Future?

Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by President Clinton in 1993. He was one of the foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers of his time and help found the District of Columbia's public law school. At the 1948 Democratic National Convention he drafted the civil rights plank of the Party's platform for Hubert Humphrey. The concepts embodied in that plank became the foundation for all of the human rights and equal protection laws that have since been enacted.