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Article: BOOK ON JUSTICE BLACK A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- December 20, 1994
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Byline: SAM A. MACKIE
Hugo LaFayette Black was nominated to the United States Supreme Court in 1937, and had he retained his seat a few months longer (he died in September 1971), he would have held the longevity record for a sitting justice. Longevity aside, his judicial record was extraordinary, and he was a leading activist during the court's most exciting and turbulent years.
Historian Roger K. Newman details Black's legal career from its inauspicious roots Black went directly from high school to medical school and, after one year, transferred to the University of Alabama Law School, where he graduated in 1906 through his final days on the ...