Benjamin Spaulding Jr.

Ben was one of my good friends in Law School at the University of Michigan. He was a leader in the Black Action Movement (BAM), which closed the campus in the spring of 1970 with the goal of stimulating the university to reach 10% African American enrollment. He was a very nice guy with a good sense of humor and a well-formed philosophy regarding the American judicial system.

I lost touch with Ben after law school but managed to look him up in Atlanta when there on business and...