Late in 1956, a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, declared segregated buses unconstitutional.
But neither Magnitsky nor Browder himself imagined the extent of the corruption in the Putin regime.
The authorities also went after the head of the actual Hermitage, Browder, who had already been barred from the country.
“The only way to get justice is to patient and persistent and tenacious,” Browder says.
The friend referred Browder to his former colleagues, who decided the case would be best handled by the feds.
