Frank Barbaro, a champion of the working class who rose from longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks to progressive state legislator to state Supreme Court judge, died surrounded by family members at home Sunday, Sept. 4, of congestive heart failure. He was 88.

The 6-foot-4, barrel-chested son of Italian immigrants never stopped fighting against powerful forces on behalf of poor, exploited people and oppressed workers across the state. He also traveled to Nicaragua and El Salvador to support labor movements there.

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