Civil rights advocate Donald Shaffer, 84, dies
Photo credit: handout | Donald Shaffer died Feb. 17 at age 84.
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Donald Shaffer may have spent much of his life advocating for civil rights, litigating against practices he called discriminatory, and later, ascending to prestigious legal positions, such as the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
But it was not until he was nearly 60 years old when he decided to become a lawyer.
"He had quite a long gap year," said colleague Daniel Cantor,...
