"He was so totally committed to his profession that he really pulled a curtain down on anything else," says Mark Solomon, a professor emeritus at Simmons College. "I remember talking to him in the 1960s about what was going on temporarily and he looked at me and said 'I'm totally immersed in my period.'"
In contrast, Ann Ginger was, and is, deeply involved in politics.
In 1954, she was active in the National Lawyer's Guild, which the United States Attorney General was trying to put on its list of subversive organizations, and was a lawyer with the Civil Rights Congress, which was already on the list.
Since Ann and Ray Ginger divorced in 1957, she has continued her work as an author, lawyer and activist, authoring and editing 22 books on civil rights and law, including, most recently Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal. She is currently president of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, California.
Truth and Reconciliation
When the incident first occurred, the Gingers decided not to publicize it because they both needed to get jobs.
"I was a lawyer. I didn't want to have a huge amount of stuff about this in the papers," she said. "It wouldn't have helped me. And he was an author. It wouldn't have helped him get a job to have a big bunch of stuff in the papers."
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