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Signature. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and again from 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of ...
Smith. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought ...
Jack Greenberg (December 22, 1924 – October 12, 2016) was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall. [1] He was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools.
Harris’ endorsement “made the difference” in the lawyer’s legal case, said Kevin Johnson, the dean of UC Davis’ law school. How Kamala Harris helped a California man become the nation ...
The Harris-Walz campaign has received the first-ever presidential endorsement from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights group in the ...
One of Peterson’s staunchest supporters in the documentary is his sister-in-law Janey Peterson, who became a lawyer in part to fight for his freedom, She tells PEOPLE that Scott's affair and his ...
Kamala Harris was elected the attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, the first African American, and the first South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history. She took office on January 3, 2011, and would be re-elected in 2014 to serve until she resigned on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the ...
This article covers the life of Kamala Harris before her tenure as Attorney General of California. Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, 1964 to biologist Shyamala Gopalan and economist Donald J. Harris. The Harris family moved to various locations in the Midwestern United States from 1966 to 1970, when she moved back to California.