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“With No One Ever Asked, Arnold Rochvarg delivers a captivating story, full of historical facts, that gives one a great sense of a young, determined woman living out her values.”—Cassandra Jones Havard, Joseph F. Rice School of Law, University of South Carolina.   ""The Civil Rights Movement had many well-known champions, including Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and Rosa Parks. No One Ever Asked, however, explores how an overlooked Philadelphia college student and other forgotten foot soldiers of her generation upended their lives in the 1960s to register Georgia and Mississippi voters and to fight for racial equality. An informative, well-researched book, No One Ever Asked recovers a lost narrative and sheds new light on that era’s grassroots campaigns to protect civil rights.”—U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar   

“With No One Ever Asked, Arnold Rochvarg delivers a captivating story, full of historical facts, that gives one a great sense of a young, determined woman living out her values.”—Cassandra Jones Havard, Joseph F. Rice School of Law, University of South Carolina.  

“With No One Ever Asked, Arnold Rochvarg delivers a captivating story, full of historical facts, that gives one a great sense of a young, determined woman living out her values.”—Cassandra Jones Havard, Joseph F. Rice School of Law, University of South Carolina.   ""The Civil Rights Movement had many well-known champions, including Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and Rosa Parks. No One Ever Asked, however, explores how an overlooked Philadelphia college student and other forgotten foot soldiers of her generation upended their lives in the 1960s to register Georgia and Mississippi voters and to fight for racial equality. An informative, well-researched book, No One Ever Asked recovers a lost narrative and sheds new light on that era’s grassroots campaigns to protect civil rights.”—U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar    “Iris Geller, a Philadelphia college sophomore ignited in part by the tragic murders in 1964 Mississippi of three young civil rights workers joined a movement that changed the nation. With great historical accuracy, No one Ever Asked deftly describes the civil rights and political backdrop of the volatile 1960’s. Rochvarg vividly recounts Iris’s passionate and controversial decision to leave all she had known to go on a “years long” journey to join the fight for a more just society and the long-term personal outcome of that consequential choice.” —José Anderson, University of Baltimore School of Law, author of Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American   “A careful and loving recreation of a lost family story bound up with the Civil Rights movement, in this highly readable book, Arnie Rochvarg digs deep into the details of the Civil Rights struggle and his cousin’s untold story. Rochvarg is not just a family detective but a fine writer of history, making No One Ever Asked a must read for those interested in the struggle for racial equality in this nation.” —James David Robenalt, attorney, author of Ballots and Bullets, Black Power Politics and Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland   “Many authors have written about leaders of the civil rights movement, but in No One Ever Asked, Arnold Rochvarg provides a powerful story of his cousin, Iris Geller, a civil rights foot soldier, a white female college student dedicated to the cause of racial justice. Geller's total commitment to the movement results in the story of a compelling journey. One that reflects courage, sacrifice, frustration, and ultimately reaffirmation. Her story includes her role as a voting rights activist, occupier of an Air Force base, and partner in an intimate interracial relationship with a fellow SNCC member. This book provides a newly revealed story about the civil rights movement from the ground up: We should all be grateful that someone finally asked Iris Geller to tell it.” —Michael Higginbotham, University of Baltimore, author of Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America  

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Arnold Rochvarg spent most of his professional career as a law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he taught numerous subjects including Criminal Law, Administrative Law, and Professional Responsibility. Before entering academia, he practiced with a private law firm in Washington, D.C. Most notable is that he was a member of the legal defense team on the appeal of one of the defendants convicted at the Watergate conspiracy trial. The successful appeal of this Watergate defendant’s conviction was the subject of the author’s first book, “Watergate Victory: Mardian’s Appeal.” Rochvarg has also published scholarly articles on legal and ethical issues involved in the Watergate scandal and prosecution, has spoken at conferences on Watergate, and been interviewed by media organizations for his opinions on current issues and their similarity to Watergate. He has also published legal treatises and law journal articles for practicing lawyers.  

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