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Triumphant the Journey Celebrating the Stories of Black Alumni September 16−18, 2016

George L. Ruffin Lila Fenwick Class of 1956 Class of 1869 The Firsts

In 1778, Isaac Royall, Jr. bequeathed hundreds of acres of land in central Massachusetts to the Harvard College for the endowment of a Professorship of Laws or Medicine. Royall’s land in Massachusetts was purchased in large part by the proceeds of the sale of his plantations and slaves on Antigua when his family moved to Massachusetts in the aftermath of a slave revolt on Antigua. The Royall Family

U.S. Constitution – Signed September 17, 1787

The Harvard Law School was founded in 1817, and it is the oldest continually operating law school in the United States. The Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, October 1817. Harvard Law School Founded in 1817

Dane Hall – Home to the Law School from 1832 to 1882

Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)

January 1, 1863 December 18, 1865 The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

July 9, 1868 − The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

George L. Ruffin, Class of 1869 The First African American to Graduate from the Harvard Law School

February 3, 1870 − The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

In 1874, Archibald H. Grimke became the second African American to graduate from the Harvard Law School. Archibald H. Grimke − Class of 1874

In 1893, Clement Garnett Morgan became the first African American to graduate from both Harvard College and the Harvard Law School. Clement Garnett Morgan − Class of 1893

William H. Lewis graduated from the Harvard Law School as part of the Class of 1895. Harvard Law School Class of 1895

William H. Lewis (1895)

Justice Henry Billings Brown Justice John Marshall Harlan Author of the Majority Opinion Author of the Dissenting Opinion Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)

In 1911, William H. Lewis, Sr. was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the United States by President William H. Taft. William H. Lewis, Sr. (L.L.B. 1895)

Charles Hamilton Houston (L.L.B., S.J.D. 1923)

Langdell Hall − 1931

In 1936, the Royall Family coat of arms was adopted as the seal for Harvard Law School by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, an alumnus and former English professor of Harvard University. 1936 − Royall Family Coat of Arms Adopted

1940 − LDF Founded

In 1946, William T. Coleman graduated No. 1 in his class at Harvard Law School and became the first black U.S. Supreme Court law clerk. William T. Coleman (J.D. 1943(1946))

In 1949, William H. Hastie, Jr. received a recess appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from President Harry S. Truman. Hastie was later confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1950, becoming the first African American appellate judge. William H. Hastie, Jr.

1950s

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

“ We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ’separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. ” Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Lila Fenwick, Class of 1956 The First African American Woman to Graduate from the Harvard Law School

1960s

1960s

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

1965 2015 Selma

BLSA Founded in 1967

1970s

In 1971, Derrick A. Bell, Jr. became the first tenured Black Professor of Law at Harvard Law School . Professor Derrick Bell

Professor Derrick Bell