Biography
Harris Wofford was born in New York City in 1926. While attending high school, he was inspired by Clarence Streit's plea for a world government to found the Student Federalists.
He served in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. He is a 1948 graduate of the University of Chicago. He enrolled at Howard Law School, the first white student to do so since the early 20th century. After one year, he transferred to Yale Law School, where he graduated in June 1954. He began his public service career as an attorney for the United States Commission on Civil Rights, serving from 1954 to 1958. In 1959, he became a law professor at University of Notre Dame. He was an early supporter of the Civil Rights movement in the south in the late 1950s and became a friend and unofficial advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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