Here, in general, most lawyers, black and white, go along with the system.
He said four of them are women who were either black or Hispanic lawyers.
You know, these young black lawyers have a rough time.
At the time, there were fewer than 3,000 black lawyers in the nation.
That was in the 1940's, when even blacks looked down on black lawyers.
The black lawyers asked that all elections be stopped until the case was decided.
A black lawyer then sometimes had "a hard time finding any place to eat," he said.
The number of black lawyers has risen to 15,000 from 9,000.
He is likely the first black lawyer in Virginia whose daughter followed him into the legal profession.
Our black lawyers and summer recruits come from 14 law schools nationwide.
