For Release: April 16, 2007
John M. Rosenberg, t he longtime director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, or AppalReD, is Bill Goodman's guest on the next edition of One to One . The program air s Friday, May 4 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2 and Sunday, May 6 at 2/1 p.m. CT on KET1.Rosenberg held the director's position at AppalReD for over 28 years before retiring in 2001 . He now serves as its interim director. He is a graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina School of Law. He began his career in 1962 as a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, where he prepared and presented civil cases involving voting and public accommodations in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, and then the western section of the United States.
Rosenberg later became chief of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, where he often worked in the face of hostility to racial equality.
Rosenberg's leadership of the AppalReD brought important legal services to thousands of people and led to path-breaking developments in many aspects of poverty law and other areas of legal services. He established the Mine Safety Project, the Kentucky Migrant Legal Services Project and Volunteer Lawyer for Appalachian Kentucky.
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