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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

‘Champion of the underdog’: Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley history professor emeritus, dies at 91

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Leon Litwack, who taught at UC Berkeley for 43 years, died Aug. 5 at the age of 91.

Despite being a historian, Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the department of history, was a man far ahead of his time.
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