Others expressed skepticism over this description of Shelton's involvement, but he apparently did break with the Farmworkers Organization when he married another member of the group and began to disagree with the group's political aims.
Redlich emphasized Shelton's broad social concerns rather than his particular political attachments. "He nevear got into that abstract stuff." Redlich said.
Before graduating from Horace Mann in 1976. Shelton founded an annual softball marathon that still raises several thousand dollars a year for cancer research. He also did volunteer work for the World Hunger Organization.
Recently, he had led leenant organizing for a group on Symphony Rd., where be lived, and had worked through the Legal Aid Bureau for Tenants in Action, a Cambridge group.
"Law School was really secondary to his political and organizing work," said Clint Fisher, his adviser at the Leagal Aid Bureau.
Shelton had also tried unsuccessfully to organize local taxi cab drivers and drove a cab part-time himself