Saturday, April 25, 2015 | 11:30am – 1:00 pm
Luncheon and Keynote
Morris Wolff, Esquire
Renowned International Humanitarian and Scholar
Morris Wolff is an acclaimed international human rights lawyer and humanitarian.
Wolff served as legal counsel for Civil Rights issues in the John F. Kennedy White House and was appointed by US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to help create The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Along with Rosa Parks, Wolff was awarded the National Council of Christian and Jews Annual Award for humanitarian service for helping to write The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Wolff was honored by the United States Congress in 2005 for his humanitarian efforts in seeking the release of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish Diplomat who saved the lives of more than 100,000 Jews during the Holocust, but was later imprisoned by the Soviets. In 1983, Mr. Wolff won a historic lawsuit against the Soviet Union on behalf of Raoul Wallenberg. The US Federal Courts awarded the Wallenberg family $39 million dollars in damages and found the Russians liable for the kidnapping of Wallenberg.
Wolff is also the recipient of the United Nations Peace Award for Humanitarian Service at Carnegie Hall and is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School. He is currently the Scholar-in-Residence at the historic St. Peter’s School in Philadelphia.
