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Old 08-06-2007, 09:01 AM
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Pioneer Civil Rights Attorney Oliver Hill dies.

Brother Oliver Hill, Alpha Chapter 1927, Life Member # 1606, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill dies
Attorney was part of suits that became Brown v. Board of Education ruling
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:24 p.m. ET Aug 5, 2007
RICHMOND, Va. - Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100, a family friend said.
Hill died peacefully Sunday at his home during breakfast, said Joseph Morrissey, a friend of the Hill family.
In 1954, he was part of a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which changed America's society and touched off a wrenching period for the nation.
In 1940, Hill won his first civil rights case in Virginia, one that required equal pay for black and white teachers.
Eight years later, he was the first black elected to Richmond's City Council since Reconstruction. A lawsuit argued by Hill in 1951 on behalf of high school students protesting deplorable conditions of their Farmville high school became one of five cases decided under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark
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