Dear Editor:
John Ruhl’s President’s Page history of KCBA (“Apologia for ‘KCBA Politics,’” April) and Ken Christensen’s Profile of Ken MacDonald (“An Uncommon Advocate for the Common Man”) are among the best written and most compelling articles I’ve read in any legal periodical in a long time.
I was inspired by the courageous and pioneering roles in protecting the marginalized and vilified that have marked KCBA’s 120 years and MacDonald’s 60 years as a lawyer. In today’s slippery slope of civil and human rights, we need institutions like KCBA and lawyers like Ken MacDonald more than ever.
–Carole Grayson, Director, Staff Attorney, UW Student Legal Services
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Addenda
April’s Profile on Ken MacDonald omitted a key source: Jane Sanders’ book, Cold War on the Campus, Academic Freedom at the University of Washington, 1946-64 (University of Washington Press, 1979).
