sentences:  Kinoy was a member of the National Lawyers Guild, serving as national vice president in 1954.In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement activities in the South to end disenfranchisement and segregation, he participated in a conference sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild's Committee for Legal Assistance in the South.It briefed attorneys on legal problems confronting civil rights demonstrators in Mississippi, where state and local governments resisted change.