Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal
effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100, a family
friend said. In 1954, he was part of a series of lawsuits against racially
segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark
Brown v. Board of Education decision. Read more at boston.com
Civil rights attorney Oliver Hill dies
Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal
effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100, a family
friend said. In 1954, he was part of a series of lawsuits against racially
segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark
Brown v. Board of Education decision. Read more at boston.com
