# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris-berthold-abram
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:38.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris-berthold-abram"
name: "Morris Berthold Abram"
slug: "morris-berthold-abram"
description: "Morris Berthold Abram was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, and for two years president of Brandeis University. In 1953 he successfully sought the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Fifth District in Georgia, urging the desegregation of schools, but lost the election in 1954."
tagline: "American civil rights lawyer (1918–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morris_Abram%2C_civic_leader_and_lawyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1918-06-19"
deathDate: "2000-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.51
  momentum:             6.054694725459228
  historical:           7.219944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Morris B. Abram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A._%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "موريس بي. إبرام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريس بى. ابرام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_B._Abram"
    title: "Morris B. Abram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_B._Abram"
    title: "Morris B. Abram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A8._%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "موریس ب. ابرام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Abram"
    title: "Morris Abram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_B._Abram"
    title: "Morris B. Abram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13522437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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