James Nabrit

Lawyer, Deceased Person

1932 – 2013

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Who was James Nabrit?

James Madison Nabrit III was an African American civil rights attorney and ally of Thurgood Marshall who won several important decisions before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nabrit III was born in Houston, Texas to James Nabrit, Jr., a prominent civil rights attorney, law professor and later President of Howard University. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended segregated public schools through part of high school. He finished high school at the Mount Hermon School for Boys, now Northfield Mount Hermon, in Massachusetts. Nabrit III graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1952 and Yale Law School in 1955. Nabrit began his career with the law firm of Reeves, Robinson & Duncan, served two years in the U.S. Army and then spent 30 years as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. He argued many important civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and various U.S. Court of Appeals, including Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1972, and Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham in 1969. He argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court and won 9.

Nabrit died on March 22, 2013 in a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland suffering from lung cancer.

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Born
1932
United States of America
Parents
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Yale University
  • Bates College
Lived in
  • Washington, D.C.
Died
Mar 22, 2013

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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