20 Feb 2018 ... Hugo Black, in full Hugo La Fayette Black, (born February 27, 1886, Harlan, Clay county, Alabama, U.S.—died September 25, 1971, Bethesda, Maryland), lawyer, politician, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937– 71). Black's legacy as a Supreme Court justice derives from his ...
Hugo Black - YouTube
13 Apr 2017 ... Hugo Black served in the U.S. Senate and on the U.S. Supreme Court for 34 years. He was appointed and confirmed to the Court in August 1937. Today, Justice B...
Hugo Black and the K.K.K. | AMERICAN HERITAGE
Had it not been for politics, the paths of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Hugo La Fayette Black might never have crossed. Roosevelt had been born to wealth and to a patrician, manorial legacy in the Hudson River valley. Black came from yeoman stock in rural Alabama, and his birthrights were little more than a keen mind ...
Hugo Black and the KKK
Hugo Black and the KKK. On August 12, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt called Hugo Black into his office, and, after a few minutes of small talk, removed a Supreme Court nomination form from his desk and handed the paper to Black. Thus Hugo Black was nominated as a United States Supreme Court Justice. Black, born in a ...
Amazon.com: Hugo Black: A Biography (9780823217861): Roger K ...
Supreme Court Justice Black (1886-1971), a noted civil libertarian and populist, is done justice in this first comprehensive biography, written with the cooperation of his family. Newman, a former research scholar at New York University School of Law, recreates Black's youth in isolated Clay County, Ala., his move into law ...
Hugo Black - Lawyer, U.S. Representative, Supreme Court Justice ...
1 Apr 2014 ... Justice Hugo Black was known for his libertarian rulings on the Supreme Court, despite highly offensive affiliations from the past. Learn more at Biography.com.
Hugo L. Black | Oyez
From a rural county and a humble beginning, Hugo LaFayette Black refused to let his past dictate his future. Black was born on February 17, 1886, in Harlan, Alabama. He was the eighth and last child of Martha Toland and William Black, who lived on a farm for the first three years of Black's life. Black's mother greatly valued ...
