Marty Rosenbluth facts for kids

Marty Rosenbluth is a special kind of lawyer who helps people with their immigration journeys. He also works hard as a civil rights activist, meaning he fights for everyone's basic rights and freedoms.

Early Life and Education

Marty Rosenbluth grew up in New York. He went to college at Antioch College and later studied law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is Jewish and has shared that many members of his family were lost during a very sad time in history called The Holocaust.

Helping People Around the World

Marty has always been passionate about helping others. He volunteered for Amnesty International, which is a group that works to protect human rights all over the world. He spent seven years in the West Bank, where he worked to support the Palestinians.

In 1995, he helped create a documentary film called Jerusalem: An Occupation Set In Stone?. This film showed how city planning in Israel affected the lives of Palestinians.

Standing Up for Rights in the U.S.

After his work abroad, Marty started a non-profit group called the North Carolina Immigration Rights Project. A non-profit organization works to help people rather than make money. This project helps immigrants in the Durham, North Carolina area. He also works as a lawyer at Polanco Law PC in Durham, North Carolina.

In 2016, Marty joined other civil rights activists, like Rose Hamid, to protest at political rallies. They were speaking out about how some people were being treated. He even designed special "Go Yellow Against Hate" star badges for these protests. That same year, he also offered free legal help to Syrian refugees, who are people who had to leave their home country because it was not safe.

A New Mission in Georgia

In 2017, Marty moved from North Carolina to Lumpkin, Georgia. He moved there because Lumpkin has a detention center near the Alabama border. This center holds people while their immigration cases are being decided. Marty wanted to help the refugees and immigrants held there because there were no other lawyers in town. The closest lawyers were 140 miles away in Atlanta.

A study from 2015 showed that only about 6% of people held in these centers had a lawyer to help them. Marty found a clever way to get more lawyers to Lumpkin: he offered a spare bedroom in his house to lawyers who came to help. This encouraged more legal help for those who needed it most.