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Aug 7, 2007 · Attorney Oliver Hill was one of a handful of pioneering legal eagles who risked his career and his life to challenge American justice in the days of segregation. Hill's old neighbor and friend ...
Aug 16, 2007 · Oliver White Hill was born Oliver White on May 1, 1907 in Richmond, Virginia. When he was a baby, his father left; later his mother Olivia remarried and he took the last name of his stepfather, Joseph C. Hill. The family moved to Roanoke, Virginia, and then to Washington, D.C. where he graduated from Dunbar High School.
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Oliver White Hill, Sr. (May 1, 1907 – August 5, 2007) was an American civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia.[1] His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of “separate but equal.” He also helped win landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury selection, and employment protection. He retired ...
These lapel pins are shown in the slideshow below. Oliver W. Hill, Sr., died at his home in Richmond on August 7, 2007. He was 100 years old and had lived long enough to be recognized for his many contributions to civil rights. In 1999, Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Oliver W. Hill was one of a handful of attorneys whose legal prowess brought an end to the Jim Crow-era doctrine of “separate but equal.”. In more than six decades of civil rights litigation, Hill has won landmark cases for the equalization of salaries for public school personnel; the right to serve on grand and petit juries; inclusion in ...
Aug 6, 2007 · RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 5 (AP) — Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the forefront of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died Sunday at his home here. He was 100. Mr ...
Aug 17, 2013 · Oliver W. Hill, Jr., Ph.D. discusses his father, civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill. He explains his father's childhood and education in Roanoke, Virginia, how he ended up at Howard University in the 1920s, where he was in the same class as Justice Thurgood Marshall and studied law under Charles Hamilton Houston.
