Draft:Samuel Decatur McGill
Samuel Decatur McGill (April 23, 1878 - 1951) was a lawyer in Florida. He defended the Scottsboro Boys. He Judson Douglas Wermore, and Lawrence Purcell handled several landmark civil rights cases together heard before the Florida Supreme Court.[1]
He was the son of Nathan and Agnes McGill.[2] He studied at Dummer Academy in Massachusetts,[2] and was a 1908 graduate of Boston University School of Law.[1]
Weaving the Fabric of Freedom: A Reflection of the Black Legacy of Florida's First Coast
He was photographed as part of a delegation of “colored” leaders in Port au Prince, Haiti.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b j. Clay Smith, Jr (1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. ISBN 0812216857.
- ^ a b "Third Report". 1913.
- ^ https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/theazgleam/id/402/
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