# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvyn-r-leventhal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:38:25.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvyn-r-leventhal"
name: "Melvyn R. Leventhal"
slug: "melvyn-r-leventhal"
description: "Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal is an American attorney known for his work as a community organizer and lawyer in the 1960s–70s Civil Rights Movement. From 1969 to 1974 he served as the Lead Counsel in Mississippi for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and then, from 1974 to 1978, as a staff attorney in LDF's offices in New York."
tagline: "American lawyer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1943-03-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.935534666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D9%84%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ميلڤين آر. ليڤينثال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_R._Leventhal"
    title: "Melvyn R. Leventhal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE%D9%84"
    title: "میلون آر لیونتھل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37995070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations