https://www.americaspeacemakers.org/new-page daily 1.0 2021-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600dbd0d87812b75eb0c68ac/1611873084072-DEQEIWRVYQTNOKPVV0JL/Levine-Lum-cover.jpg Home: America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights https://www.americaspeacemakers.org/the-book daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600dbd0d87812b75eb0c68ac/1611873411696-7S8KOPRC3SYQJQFH2NEG/Levine-Lum-cover.jpg America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights - America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights by Bertram Levine and Grande Lum https://www.americaspeacemakers.org/the-authors daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600dbd0d87812b75eb0c68ac/1611726493540-KTANLMRWP4EQIE0BNPEK/GrandeLumCircle.jpg The Authors - Grande Lum Grande Lum Grande Lum is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School. Prior to joining Stanford Grande served as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Menlo College in Atherton, California, Senior Director at the Rebuild Congress Initiative, and Director of the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Previously, Grande Lum was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2012 as the Director of the Community Relations Service (CRS). Before joining CRS, Grande Lum was a clinical professor at the University of California Hastings School of the Law, where he directed the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. He is the author of The Negotiation Fieldbook (McGraw-Hill 2nd Edition, 2010); Tear Down the Wall: Be Your Own Mediator in Conflict (Optimality, 2013). He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley and a law degree from Harvard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600dbd0d87812b75eb0c68ac/1611726797899-U3AS4G1D6W7R9N840AV0/P5230047.JPG The Authors - Bertram Levine (1919 - 2006) Bertram Levine was an Associate Director of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice. Upon his retirement from the agency, he wrote "Resolving Racial Conflict: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights, 1964-1989" (2005), which he described as a history of the civil rights movement, told through the eyes of those who worked at a small, federal agency dedicated to the resolution of local community conflict. He was born in New York and graduated from Syracuse University. He served in the Army during World War II and the Korean War, rising to the rank of captain. He worked on civil rights for the American Jewish Committee in New York before moving to Washington in 1965. 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