When refused service, they sued and won a landmark ruling barring discrimination in public places on the basis of sex.
[3] In 1963, she was invited by attorney William Kunstler to become one of a group of volunteer lawyers defending civil rights workers on the voter registration drive in the southern United States.
She also defended Bruce Dancis, a draft-card burner at Cornell University, during the time of the Vietnam War.
[3] She was on the Executive Board of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she established the Women’s Legal Defense Fund of the ACLU.
[5] Her papers covering the time that she served as vice president of the National Organization for Women, are held at the Harvard Library.