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Seymour, Sr., a lawyer and civil-rights champion, died Saturday of cancer. He was 82. From 1931 to 1933, he served as U.S. assistant solicitor general. Mr. Seymour defended a young black Communist, Angelo Herndon, convicted in the 1930s of violating Georgia's anti- insurrection law
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