Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom"...Due to the Negro's social and political condition...the Negro lawyer must be prepared to anticipate, guide and interpret his advancement." Charles Hamilton Houston used these words and a revolutionary legal strategy to train a fleet of African American lawyers to battle for racial equality in the early twentieth century. From forefathers like Houston, grew a confident branch of African-American lawyers who have since broke down barriers and attained inconceivable goals of representation and stature. Lawyers featured include Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Lawson Hooks, L. Douglas Wilder, Barbara Jordan, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun. |
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Introduction | 7 |
Thurgood Marshall | 29 |
Constance Baker Motley | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Advancement of Colored African African-American African-American lawyers African-American students African-American woman all-black all-white American to serve American Women Angeles attorney awarded Bar Association bar examination Barbara Carlisle Bigelow Barbara Jordan become a lawyer Benjamin Lawson Hooks Blakeslee Board of Education Brown campaign career Carol Moseley-Braun Charles Hamilton Houston Chicago Children's Defense Fund civil rights movement Colored People NAACP Connie Constance Baker Motley Contemporary Black Biography Democratic Detroit doctorate degrees Douglas Wilder elected father federal bench fight Gale Research governor graduated Harvard Law Hastie's high school Howard University Ibid Johnnie Cochran judge later legislation Marian Wright Edelman married Marshall's Martin Luther King Memphis Mississippi Moseley NAACP National police political President racial racism school desegregation segregation separate but equal Simpson special counsel speech Spingarn Medal Tennessee Texas Thurgood Marshall U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court Virginia vote Washington William Hastie William Henry Hastie York