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The Firsts
Class of 1869 Class of 1956 George L. Ruffin Lila Fenwick
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Triumphant the Journey Celebrating the Stories of Black Alumni September 1618, 2016 George L. Ruffin Lila Fenwick Class of 1956 Class of 1869 The Firsts In 1778, Isaac Royall, Jr. bequeathed hundreds of acres of land in central
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The Royall Family
In 1778, Isaac Royall, Jr. bequeathed hundreds of acres of land in central Massachusetts to the Harvard College for the endowment of a Professorship of Laws or Medicine. Royall’s land in Massachusetts was purchased in large part by the proceeds of the sale of his plantations and slaves on Antigua when his family moved to Massachusetts in the aftermath of a slave revolt on Antigua.
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U.S. Constitution – Signed September 17, 1787
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Harvard Law School Founded in 1817
The Harvard Law School was founded in 1817, and it is the
- ldest continually operating law school in the United States.
The Catalogue of the Officers and Students
- f Harvard University, October 1817.
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Dane Hall – Home to the Law School from 1832 to 1882
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Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)
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The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
January 1, 1863 December 18, 1865
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July 9, 1868 − The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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George L. Ruffin, Class of 1869 The First African American to Graduate from the Harvard Law School
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February 3, 1870 − The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Archibald H. Grimke − Class of 1874
In 1874, Archibald H. Grimke became the second African American to graduate from the Harvard Law School.
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Clement Garnett Morgan − Class of 1893
In 1893, Clement Garnett Morgan became the first African American to graduate from both Harvard College and the Harvard Law School.
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Harvard Law School Class of 1895
William H. Lewis graduated from the Harvard Law School as part of the Class of 1895.
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William H. Lewis (1895)
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
Justice Henry Billings Brown Author of the Majority Opinion Justice John Marshall Harlan Author of the Dissenting Opinion
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William H. Lewis, Sr. (L.L.B. 1895)
In 1911, William H. Lewis, Sr. was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the United States by President William H. Taft.
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Charles Hamilton Houston (L.L.B., S.J.D. 1923)
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Langdell Hall − 1931
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1936 − Royall Family Coat of Arms Adopted
In 1936, the Royall Family coat of arms was adopted as the seal for Harvard Law School by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, an alumnus and former English professor of Harvard University.
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1940 − LDF Founded
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William T. Coleman (J.D. 1943(1946))
In 1946, William T. Coleman graduated No. 1 in his class at Harvard Law School and became the first black U.S. Supreme Court law clerk.
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William H. Hastie, Jr.
In 1949, William H. Hastie, Jr. received a recess appointment to the U.S. Court
- f Appeals for the Third Circuit from President Harry S. Truman. Hastie was
later confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1950, becoming the first African American appellate judge.
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1950s
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ’separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
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Lila Fenwick, Class of 1956 The First African American Woman to Graduate from the Harvard Law School
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1960s
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1960s
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Selma
1965 2015
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BLSA Founded in 1967
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1970s
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Professor Derrick Bell In 1971, Derrick A. Bell, Jr. became the first tenured Black Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
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