SOME NOTABLE BLACK LAWYERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
In addition to the outstanding lawyers "of color," as William T. Coleman terms them, in his outstanding legal autobiography, COUNSEL FOR THE SITUATION (2010), namely: Charles Hamilton Houston, William Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, I would hasten to add his name to that extraordinary list of lawyers, his exemplary career being the archetypal "Philadelphia lawyer."
However, the list of outstanding black lawyers neither starts
nor ends withe the aforementioned list. From William Morris, the first black lawyer in the United States in 1840's Boston to John Mercer Langston of the 1850's Ohio and Washington, D.C, who founded the Howard Law School, to Charlotte B. Ray of Howard first woman lawyer of 1870's Washington, D.C. to James Milton Turner of the 1880's Missouri and Oklahoma, educator, Indian claims litigator: to William T. Greener, first black Harvard Law graduate, later Howard Law dean; John Wesley Cromwell, 1890's Howard Law grad, black historian and secretary of the American Negro Academy; Kelly Miller, lawyer, mathematician, sociologist, dean, Howard School of Liberal Arts; and even more recently, Douglas Wilder, Virginia Governor; Johnie Cochran and Willie Gary, litigators extraordinare; Reginald Lewis, Wall Street phenom and philanthropist; Vernon Jordan, Wall Street partner and National Urban League; Barack Obama, U,S. President; Benjamin Crump, civil rights; many more as well.
SOME NOTABLE BLACK LAWYERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
In addition to the outstanding lawyers "of color," as William T. Coleman terms them, in his outstanding legal autobiography, COUNSEL FOR THE SITUATION (2010), namely: Charles Hamilton Houston, William Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, I would hasten to add his name to that extraordinary list of lawyers, his exemplary career being the archetypal "Philadelphia lawyer."
However, the list of outstanding black lawyers neither starts
nor ends withe the aforementioned list. From William Morris, the first black lawyer in the United States in 1840's Boston to John Mercer Langston of the 1850's Ohio and Washington, D.C, who founded the Howard Law School, to Charlotte B. Ray of Howard first woman lawyer of 1870's Washington, D.C. to James Milton Turner of the 1880's Missouri and Oklahoma, educator, Indian claims litigator: to William T. Greener, first black Harvard Law graduate, later Howard Law dean; John Wesley Cromwell, 1890's Howard Law grad, black historian and secretary of the American Negro Academy; Kelly Miller, lawyer, mathematician, sociologist, dean, Howard School of Liberal Arts; and even more recently, Douglas Wilder, Virginia Governor; Johnie Cochran and Willie Gary, litigators extraordinare; Reginald Lewis, Wall Street phenom and philanthropist; Vernon Jordan, Wall Street partner and National Urban League; Barack Obama, U,S. President; Benjamin Crump, civil rights; many more as well.
