Deletion of Ralph Knowles

Comment: He sounds fairly notable from http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202757970248/Ralph-Knowles-Leaves-Legal-Legacy-on-Behalf-of-Victims-of-Powerful-Interests?slreturn=20160924123421 this extensive obituary in the Fulton County Daily Report and http://law.gsu.edu/2016/05/18/friend-of-college-ralph-knowles-71-dies/ this one issued by the Georgia State University College of Law (which helps with , if not ). Even though the article as written focuses mostly on the Dow Corning case, it seems like his civil rights work and his prisoner advocacy are at least equally important, if not more so. There is extensive coverage of his college time at Alabama, including his opposition to George Wallace as student body president, in https://books.google.com/books?id=IjjOAgAAQBAJ& this book, http://www.sewaneemessenger.com/front/index.php?id=7701480406787099624 this piece and https://books.google.com/books?id=mfus5cF5COIC this book discuss his civil rights work, and there are articles describing his work on behalf of prisoners, including his time as director of the National Prison Project, http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/18/us/judges-authority-prison-reform-attacked-courts-trial-third-four-articles-efforts.html?pagewanted=all here and http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/16/us/400-in-jail-chosen-for-release-by-federal-judge-in-alabama.html here and https://books.google.com/books?id=9u1QoWfhOAcC here and https://books.google.com/books?id=XyNr-yr_w9YC here and https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/106591770/ here and https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/181075347/ here and http://www.sanquentinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1980-July25.pdf here (in the "Judge Orders Reforms at New Mexico Pen" article on p. 3). And that's just with a fairly cursory search of five or ten minutes. The sourcing in the current article is inadequate, but this does seem to me like a legitimately notable subject whose article needs improvement, not deletion. -Special:Contributions/208.81.148.195|208.81.148.195
Stance: keep
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