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Legally Speaking: They blazed a trail-The first African American lawyers

By John G. Browning | Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 @ 10:15am

In February 2013—African-American Heritage Month—it’s easy to grow complacent about the strides made by blacks in the legal profession. After all, the president of the United States is African-American and a former president of the Harvard Law Review. The U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, is African-American, as is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.