Isaac Shorr

In 1913, he graduated from New York University School of Law after studying at night and working by day as a cigarmaker.

In 1920, Hale wrote to Tom Mooney, "We are in a hot bed of repression here, with only a very few lawyers who are willing and able to handle the situation, and who are hopelessly overworked.

In 1920, Shorr testified before Congress that he was representing more than 60 people involved in deportation during the Palmer Raids.

[5][6] In fact, during the Palmer Raids, the U.S. Government noted: Mr. Shorr is well known to the department because of his activities as attorney for these people.

[1] On December 9, 1927, the trial began, and the full defense team included Darrow, Hays, Shorr, and King.

[1] Shorr's grandson Gene Weingarten is a Washington Post journalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for feature writing.

Engraving by Walter Crane of executed "Anarchists of Chicago" after the Haymarket affair (1886), an event that affected Shorr and many in his generation
New York University School of Law 's Vanderbilt Hall, where Shorr studied
1913 photo of Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan , Carlo Tresca , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Adolph Lessig , and Bill Haywood –Tresca was well known to Shorr and his law partners
Clarence Darrow circa 1925, whom Shorr helped defend two Italian anti-fascists in 1927