Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick
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The heyday was Reconstruction, really. And then, starting about 1890, Arkansas imposed statutes that forced black people out of public office and made it impossible to vote -- Jim Crow laws -- and I just started to be amazed.
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For an ordinary, small-town lawyer, he accomplished incredible things. He reached heights one wouldn't expect of an African-American lawyer -- or any lawyer coming from his background. And these days, no one knows it.
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Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they couldn't get training in the South.