Michelle Alexander

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michelle Alexander
Occupation	Activist
Date Of Birth	Oct 7, 1967(1967-10-07)
Age	57
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Libra

Michelle Alexander Biography

Michelle Alexander is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on October 7, 1967 in Illinois, United States. A civil rights activist, she gained national attention with her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration and the Age of Colorblindness. She was a finalist in the Silver Gavel Award and won the NAACP Image Award 2011 for outstanding nonfiction.

She praised Ta_Nehisi, a prominent black activist and writer,’s 2015 book Between the World and Me to The New York Times.

Michelle Alexander (born October 7, 1967) is a writer, civil rights advocate, and visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary (New York City). She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and its 2020 edition, and is an opinion columnist for The New York Times.

Alexander served as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California from 1998 until 2005 , which led a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. She directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School and was a law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun at the U. S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. As an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action suits alleging race and gender discrimination.

In 2002, she married Carter Mitchell Stewart.

Michelle Alexander Net Worth

Michelle Alexander is one of the richest Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michelle Alexander 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vanderbilt University gave her her bachelor’s degree. Later, she earned her law degree at Stanford Law School.

In Hidden Colors 2:The Triumph of Melanin, she appeared. She was the Racial Justice Project Director for the ACLU’s Northern California.

Alexander was born in Chicago, Illinois to an interracial couple, John Alexander and Sandra Alexander (Huck) who were wed in 1965. She attended high school in Ashland, Oregon with her younger sister, Dr. Leslie Alexander who is a professor of History and African American Studies, and is the author of 2008’s African or American? Black Identity in New York City, 1784–1861.

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Who is Michelle Alexander Dating?

According to our records, Michelle Alexander married to Carter Mitchell Stewart. As of December 1, 2023, Michelle Alexander’s is not dating anyone.

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In the fall of 2015, all freshmen enrolled at Brown University read The New Jim Crow as part of the campus’s First Readings Program initiated by the Office of the Dean of the College and voted on by the faculty.

Facts & Trivia

Michelle Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michelle Alexander celebrates birthday on October 7 of every year.

In a 2019 opinion piece for The New York Times, written subsequent to the passing of the Ohio “Heartbeat Bill”, Alexander wrote of being raped during her first semester of law school, becoming pregnant as a result, and then aborting the pregnancy.

What is Michelle Alexander famous for?

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights attorney, advocate, legal scholar, and author of The New York Times bestseller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Does Michelle Alexander have children?

In 2002, Alexander married Carter M. Stewart, a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Stewart at the time was a senior associate at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, a San Francisco law firm, and later was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. They have three children.

What did Michelle Alexander do for civil rights?

Alexander served as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California , where she first began challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system. In this role, she initiated and led the ‘Driving While Black or Brown Campaign’ to fight patters of racial profiling.

How old is Michelle Alexander?

54 years (October 7, 1967)

What book did Martin Luther King Jr refer to as the historical bible of

the civil rights movement?

Vann Woodward’s The Strange Career of Jim Crow —a book Martin Luther King Jr. called “the historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement”—we are witnessing the unique union of a powerful and poignant text with a democratic awakening focused on the poor and vulnerable in American society.