The History of the Bar

I am a more than 60-year member of The Florida Bar.

While I was a student at Duke Law School in 1963, I was required to travel from Durham, North Carolina, to Tallahassee for a Florida Board of Bar Examiners hearing before I was cleared to take the Florida bar exam. The pretext for this requirement was an article that I had written on Castro’s ascendance while in college in 1960. Upon my arrival for the hearing, I was unofficially and confidently advised by a Board of Bar Examiners employee that the real reason for the hearing was the fact that I was African American. For decades, the Florida Board of Bar Examiners discriminated against African Americans, totally banning their admission.

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