But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

Kunstler played an important role as a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s traveling to many of the segregated battlegrounds to work to free those who had been jailed. While in the army he was noted for his theatric portrayals in the Fort Monmouth Dramatic Association. In 1962 Kunstler took part in efforts to integrate public parks and libraries in Albany Georgia.

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