Howard Bennett, Minnesota's first black judge, won a seat as the first black member elected to the Minneapolis school board in 1963; Albert Biderman, social scientist, author of book and papers on brainwashing techniques; Shellhase wrote The Group Life of the Schizophrenic Patient, 1961; and Bibliography of Army Social Work, 1962. He contributed articles on social and behavioral science to national and international professional journals, and wrote chapters for books. He received the Decorated Legion of Merit for his scientific achievement as the chief sociologist in the United States Army, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart; Phineas Indritz, also, founding member of NOW, was best known for representing the plaintiff in in front of the Supreme Court in 1948, alongside Charles Hamilton Houston. The case, which was decided along with Shelley v. Kraemer, resulted in the court ruling that race-based restrictive property covenants were unconstitutional, a significant civil rights ruling six years before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.