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Pages in category "American civil rights lawyers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 279 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
William Lewis Taylor (October 4, 1931 – June 28, 2010) was a Jewish-American attorney, lobbyist and activist who advocated on behalf of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and played a major role in drafting civil rights legislation.
In 2020, Lawyers of Color named Crump the #1 Most Influential Black Lawyer of the Decade. St. Thomas University in Florida renamed their College of Law after Crump in 2023. Benjamin L. Crump College of Law is the only law school in the country named after a currently practicing African American lawyer and the second in the country to be named ...
Eric Holder, lawyer, 82nd United States Attorney General Sunny Hostin (African American father), lawyer Benjamin Hooks , lawyer, minister, civil rights activist
Hayes graduated from HLS in 1845, worked as a lawyer in Ohio, and rose to the rank of major general during the civil war. While in office, he ended Reconstruction and championed African-American ...