Oliver Hill turned 100 yesterday (Brown v. Board)

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Spottswood W. Robinson III, George Leakes, Elaine Bowen, and Oliver Hill. 1950s. NAACP Papers, Library of Congress. LC-USZ62-118180.


Oliver White Hill (b.1907) became Richmond's first African American city councilman in the twentieth century. From 1940 to 1961 he led the Virginia legal team of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), including work on the 1954 case that resulted in a ban on legally mandated segregated schools.

http://www.vahistorical.org/sva2003/owh.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/oliver-hill

2005 Interview
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/civilrights/hill01.html


The Oliver Hill Foundation
http://www.vsb.org/docs/valawyermagazine/jj01news.pdf

The goal of the Oliver White Hill Foundation is to carry on the
work of Mr. Hill and his associates in the field of civil rights.
Although Mr. Hill and his colleagues made a tremendous
contribution to the nation in bringing down the walls of legal segregation, their work is incomplete.