biography
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Hastie, William Henry
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| lived:
| (1904–76)
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| biography:
| Judge and public official, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. A 1925 Amherst graduate, he taught for two years before going on to Harvard Law School. He taught briefly at Howard University, worked for a private firm, and served as a US Interior Department attorney (1933–7). He returned to Howard as dean of the law school (1939–46). He was a consultant on race relations to the secretary of war but resigned in 1943 to protest continued discrimination against African-American servicemen. In 1949 he became the first Afrrican-American jurist appointed a judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals, and later became an appellate chief judge for the Philadelphia circuit. He retired from the bench in 1971. |
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