Mark Lane
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Early career
Mark Lane was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Harry Arnold and Elizabeth Levin (Levin was shortened to Lane in the 1920s) and raised in Brooklyn, New York. After World War II, he served in the United States Army. He obtained an LL.B from Brooklyn Law School in 1951 after attending Long Island University. Lane, as a law student, was the administrative assistant to the National Lawyer Guild and oversaw a fund-raising function at Town Hall in New York City that featured American folk singer Pete Seeger.
Lane began a Seymour Ostrow business in East Harlem following his admission to the New York bar in 1951. Despite Lane's fame as "a defender of the poor and oppressed," Ostrow later said Lane was more motivated by his passion and search for fame than any commitment to a cause or concern for his clients." In the late 1950s, the association disbanded.
Lane was instrumental in the establishment of the Reform Democrat movement within the New York Democratic Party in 1959. In 1960, he was elected with the support of Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to the New York Legislature. He also managed the campaign of Kennedy for the 1960 presidential election in the New York City area. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York County's 10th District, which includes East Harlem and Yorkville, where Lane lived) in 1961 and 1962. Lane spent a long time in the legislature trying to abolish capital punishment. Lane said he would serve for only one term and then handle the campaign for his replacement, which he did.
Lane was the first sitting senator to be jailed for opposing segregation as a Freedom Rider in June 1961. He ran for Congress in 1962 but failed. Lane ran on the ballot in 1968 as a third party vice president, running on the Freedom and Peace Party ticket (an offshoot of the Peace and Freedom Party) with Dick Gregory.
Later career and death
Lane is the author of the 1970 book Arcadia, in which he details the effort to establish that James Joseph Richardson, a black migrant worker in Florida, had been wrongly accused of murdering his seven children. He was found guilty of the murders by using unlawful methods employed by the authorities. Richardson had been on death row for almost five years, but was able to escape execution by virtue of the Furman vs. Georgia Supreme Court decision. He received a hearing in which the charges were dismissed due to the intervention of Lane and Miami's then-prosecutors, Janet Reno, nineteen years since the book was released. Richardson was released from jail after 21 years, and Richardson's babysitter, who suffered from dementia, later admitted to the murders.
Lane grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. He continued to practice law and lectured on a variety of topics, including the United States Constitution (mainly the Bill Of Rights and the First Amendment) and civil rights.
"Who are the paradigms for the lawyer as change agent in American history?" the question was raised at the annual Law Library of Congress and American Bar Association Law Day Symposium in 2001. "Mark Lane was one of the twelve legal names featured by panel moderator Bernard Hibbitts, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law."
Lane died of a heart attack at his Charlottesville home on May 10, 2016, at the age of 89.