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Civil Rights Attorney Oliver Hill, 100, Dies

HeadlineAug 06, 2007

And the civil rights attorney Oliver Hill has died at the age of 100. He was a classmate of Thurgood Marshall at Howard University Law School and was the lead attorney on a Virginia case that later incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education. Hill was an instrumental member of an NAACP-affiliated legal team that persistently attacked segregation.

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