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Robert Lee Carter (March 11, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was an American lawyer, civil rights activist and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
22 de mai. de 2001 · The Honorable Robert L. Carter. Born on March 11, 1917, in Careyville, Florida, Robert L. Carter moved north to Newark, New Jersey, as an infant, with his mother. Carter's childhood was beset by family tragedy. He lost three siblings and his father, all during his early childhood years. Studious and introspective, Carter excelled in school ...
4 de jan. de 2012 · Associated Press. By Roy Reed. Jan. 3, 2012. Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on...
About. In 1944, upon completion of his wartime service in the United States Army Air Corps, Robert L. Carter (1917–2012; Columbia Law School 1941) went to work at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, beginning a long career of civil rights advocacy. Carter was a key strategist for a number of important legal cases involving segregation.
23 de mar. de 2008 · Robert L. Carter was a prominent civil rights lawyer and NAACP chief counsel who won 21 of 22 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He fought against racial segregation, discrimination, and censorship, and co-founded the National Conference of Black Lawyers.
Robert L. Carter oral history interview for the Civil Rights History Project conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010-10-23.
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Robert L. Carter. 1917— Judge, civil rights activist. Robert L. Carter was stung by the treatment he suffered as a young black man, but the pain was an incentive, not a discouragement. Carter grew up to be one of the key architects in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. the Board of Education, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
