Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died at home Sunday at age 100, a family friend said. In 1954, Hill was part of a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Though blind and in a wheelchair in recent years, Hill remained active in social and civil rights causes.
August 07, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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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.
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