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The Poliard Law Firm honors Wiley William Manuel (August 28, 1927January 5, 1981), the first African American to serve on the California Supreme Court. Wiley Manuel was born in Oakland, California on August 28, 1927. After graduating in 1945 from Berkeley High School he studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Then he attended Hastings College of Law and in 1953 received his LL.B. degree with Order of the Coif honors. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hasti...ngs Law Journal. Following law school, Manuel worked for 23 years in the California Attorney General's office, rising to chief assistant attorney general in the San Francisco office. In February 1976, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Manuel to the post of judge of the Alameda County Superior Court. On February 12, 1977, Governor Brown elevated Manuel to the California Supreme Court. On March 8, 1977, he was approved by the Judicial Qualifications Commission, he was sworn in March 24, 1977, and took his seat on April 5, 1977 as the first African American justice of the Supreme Court. Among his notable cases is the criminal prosecution against William and Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army on charges of kidnapping Patricia Hearst in 1974. In August 1977, Manuel wrote the 6 1 majority opinion that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the defendants' request for state-appointed counsel of their choosing. Manuel served for only four years before he died on January 5, 1981. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLawyer #PLF

The Poliard Law Firm honors John Stewart Rock (October 13, 1825 December 3, 1866), lawyer, abolitionist, doctor, and first African-American admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. John Stewart Rock was born on October 13, 1825, in Salem, New Jersey. By the age of 19, Rock began teaching in 1844 in a one-room school in Salem. Rock had an impressive work ethic, studying medicine as an apprentice under two white physicians. In 1848, Rock applied to medi...cal school but faced rejection on the basis of his race. Rock then decided to transfer into the field of dentistry and, after an 1849 apprenticeship with a white dentist, Rock opened a dental practice in Philadelphia in January 1850. After finally gaining admittance to medical school, Rock graduated from American Medical College in Philadelphia in 1852, becoming one of the first African Americans to attain a degree in medicine. In 1853, Rock moved to Boston and set up his own practice in dentistry and medicine where many of his patients were ill fugitive slaves making their way through Boston on the Underground Railroad. Rock, a passionate abolitionist and civil rights leader became a renowned public speaker and campaigned for equal rights. Rock is credited with coining the phrase "black is beautiful." Troubled by health-related problems, Rock applied for a United States passport to travel to Europe for his health but was refused because the United States Supreme Court had just declared in the Dred Scott case that a black man could not be a citizen of the United States. In 1860, Rock gave up his medical and dental practices and began to study law. In 1861, Rock passed the state bar exam and gained admittance to the Massachusetts Bar. He then opened a private law office and advocated diligently for the rights of African Americans. In 1862, he spoke at the Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, where he voiced his opposition to Lincoln’s plan for the so-called "negro colonization" in Haiti. On February 1, 1865, the day after Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery, Charles Sumner introduced a motion that made Rock the first black attorney to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Rock became the first black to be received on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. On April 9, 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed which enforced the 13th Amendment. Rock became ill with the common cold and died on December 3, 1866. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLawyer #PLF https://poliardlawfirm.com/

The Poliard Law Firm honors George Lewis Ruffin (December 16, 1834 November 19, 1886), the first African-American to graduate from Harvard Law School. George Lewis Ruffin was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1834. Ruffin's parents moved the family to Massachusetts in 1853 to protest Virginia’s ban on African Americans learning to read. His parents enrolled him at a public school in Boston. As a young man, Ruffin worked as a barber to support his family. He would read law boo...ks in his spare time and studied as an apprentice under the law partnership of Harvey Jewell and William Gaston. Ruffin married Josephine St. Pierre in 1858. She and George were active in the fight against slavery, and during the Civil War, they helped recruit black soldiers into the Massachusetts 54th and 55th regiments of the Union Army. Ruffin started publishing articles in a law journal and was later admitted to Harvard Law School after saving enough money to enroll. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1869 with the distinction of being the first black graduate of a law school in the United States, Ruffin was one of the first African Americans to be admitted to the Massachusetts bar. In 1870, Ruffin was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He went on to served two terms on the Boston City Council. Ruffin was appointed by the Governor as a judge of the Municipal Court, Charlestown district. He was the first African American to hold a judgeship in New England. Along with his civic duties, Ruffin served for twelve years as an officer of the 12th Baptist Church of Boston. George Lewis Ruffin died on November 19, 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts. In his honor, the George Lewis Ruffin Society was founded at Northeastern Univers ity in 1984 to support minorities studying in the Massachusetts criminal justice system. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLawyer #AtlantaLawyer #PLF https://poliardlawfirm.com/

The Poliard Law Firm honors Robert L. Carter (March 11, 1917 - January 3, 2012) Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist, and United States District Judge Robert L. Carter was born on March 11, 1917 in Careyville, Florida. Studious and introspective, Carter excelled in school, skipping two grades and graduating from high school at age 16. He received a scholarship that enabled him to attend Lincoln University, Robert earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree in political science from Lincol...n University in Pennsylvania and his law degree from Howard University School of Law in 1940. After obtaining his Masters in Law from Columbia University, Robert joined the United States Army Air Corps a few months before the United States entered World War II. Robert completed Officer Candidate School and received a commission as lieutenant. As the only black officer at Harding Field in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Carter integrated the officer's club. Shortly after he ended his tour of duty, Robert was hired as an assistant to NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall. Carter would stay on as a lawyer for the NAACP for the next 24 years. During his tenure, he argued 22 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (including presenting part of the oral argument in Brown v. Board of Education) and won 21. Robert left the NAACP in 1968 and spent several years at a private law firm. He was appointed as a U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York in 1972. He held adjunct faculty positions at the University of Michigan and New York University law schools and at Yale University graduate school. Carter was an outspoken advocate of equal rights and made headlines when he decried the rampant racial prejudice plaguing the criminal justice system. Over his lengthy and esteemed career, Robert was the recipient of many awards, honors, and degrees. He sat on dozens of boards, committees and task forces and published numerous articles. Robert died on January 3, 2012 at age 94. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLawyer #PLF https://poliardlawfirm.com/

The Poliard Law Firm honors George Washington Williams (October 16, 1849 August 2, 1891) American historian, Clergyman, Politician, Lawyer, Lecturer, and Soldier. George Washington Williams was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania. George’s mother had been born free, but his father was born into slavery and later gained his freedom. George received no formal education and could do little more than write his own name. At the age of fifteen, he ran away from home and enlisted in the...Continue reading

The Poliard Law Firm honors Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 July 1, 1985) Civil Rights Activist, Attorney, Episcopal Priest, and Author Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was raised by her maternal grandparents in Durham, North Carolina. At the age of 16, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1933. In 1940, Murray sat in the whites-only section of a Virginia... bus with a friend, and they were arrested for violating state segregation laws. This incident led her to pursue her career goal of working as a civil rights lawyer and in 1941, she began attending Howard University law school. Murray was the only woman in her law school class. Murray graduated first in her class, but she was denied the chance to do post-graduate work at Harvard University because of her gender. She earned a master's degree in law at the University of California, Berkeley. Murray lived in Ghana from 1960 to 1961, serving on the faculty of the Ghana School of Law. She returned to the US and studied at Yale Law School, in 1965 becoming the first African American to receive a Doctor of the Science of Law degree from the school. She taught at Brandeis University from 1968 to 1973, where she received tenure as a full professor in American studies. After passing the California bar exam in 1945, Murray was hired as the state's first black deputy attorney general in January of the following year. As a lawyer, Murray argued for civil rights and women's rights. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall called Murray's 1950 book, States' Laws on Race and Color, the "bible" of the civil rights movement. Murray served on the 19611963 Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, being appointed by John F. Kennedy. In 1966 she was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Murray as a coauthor of a brief on the 1971 case Reed v. Reed, in recognition of her pioneering work on gender discrimination. This case articulated the "failure of the courts to recognize sex discrimination for what it is and its common features with other types of arbitrary discrimination." In 1973, Murray left academia for activities associated with the Episcopal Church. She became an ordained priest in 1977, among the first generation of women priests. In addition to her legal and advocacy work, Murray published two well-reviewed autobiographies and a volume of poetry. Pauli Murray died on July 1, 1985. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackWomenLawyers #PLF https://poliardlawfirm.com/

The Poliard Law Firm honors Dovey Johnson Roundtree (April 17, 1914 May 21, 2018) Civil Rights Activist, Ordained Minister, and Attorney. Dovey Johnson Roundtree was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 17, 1914. Dovey's grandmother Rachel Bryant Graham was heavily involved in the colored women's club movement and formed a friendship with Mary McLeod Bethune, who at that time traveled extensively through the South as head of the National Association of Colored Women's... Clubs, the precursor to the National Council of Negro Women. Bethune inspired Dovey to excel academically and she later attended Spelman College from 1934 to 1938. After graduating from college, Dovey took a teaching position in South Carolina. As the threat of World War II generated unprecedented numbers of jobs for African Americans in the country's "defense preparedness" program, Dovey sought Bethune's help in obtaining employment with the federal government. Dovey was selected to be a part of a group of 40 African-American women who were to become the first to train as officers in the newly created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. After the war, Dovey enrolled at Howard University School of Law in the fall of 1947, one of only five women in her class. In 1952, during her first year of legal practice, Roundtree, along with her partner and mentor Julius Winfield Robertson, took on a bus desegregation case that would make legal history: Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company. The Keys case, along with a companion railway case, lead the Interstate Commerce Commission prohibiting segregation on interstate transportation. While fighting the civil rights battle on the national level, Roundtree and her partner Julius Robertson undertook to represent black clients in civil and criminal matters in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, D.C. It was Dovey's successful defense of the black laborer accused of the 1964 murder of alleged Kennedy mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer that solidified her reputation in the Washington, D.C. legal community. In the latter years of her practice, Roundtree forged a unique role for herself, melding her ministerial duties at Washington's Allen Chapel AME Church with her legal practice. Through religious organizations and legal groups, she became a public advocate for the welfare of young children. She continued in this role following her retirement from active legal practice in 1996. Dovey received numerous awards and recognition for her work in the legal and civil rights community. She died at the age of 104 on May 21, 2018. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLawyers #BlackWomenLawyer #PLF https://poliardlawfirm.com/