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Sussex County
The inspiring legacy of the 1st Black lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court of Virginia 110yrs ago
He made headlines by being the first Black approved to argue cases before the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (later Supreme Court of Virginia). He won a case before the Court in 1913. His case, Davis v Allen, challenged the deliberate attempt by authorities in Hampton to bar Black voters from exercising their voting…
