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960:"I am frank to confess that on this occasion I learned that truth and conviction in the hands of a skillful advocate could make what started out as a bigoted, prejudiced jury, choose the path of justice. I cannot help but wish in my heart that the same kind of skill and devotion which Bill Ming and Hubert Delany accorded to me could be available to thousands of civil rights workers, to thousands of ordinary Negroes, who are every day facing prejudiced courtrooms."
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and other House officials, alleging that the resolution to exclude him violated his constitutional right to serve so long as he met the specified age, citizenship, and residence requirements. The suit claimed that the House could exclude him only if it found he failed to meet the standing
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1533:Yarbrough, Tinsley E. (November 19, 1987).
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2477:Politicians from Raleigh, North Carolina
1762:"Paid Notice: Deaths DELANY, WILLETTA S"
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2117:My lite with Martin Luther King, Jr
1541:. Oxford University Press. p.
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1760:Delany, Willetta (July 18, 2000).
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627:Southern District of New York
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2200:"New Yorkers Get Degrees"
1439:The Einstein Intersection
1364:Saint Augustine's College
1323:Juilliard School of Music
1207:Fernandina Beach, Florida
879:Domestic Relations Courts
429:Saint Augustine's College
311:Greek-letter organization
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2382:The New South, Raleigh.
1353:City College of New York
1101:City College of New York
1076:House of Representatives
796:second-class citizenship
766:American Jewish Congress
670:House of Representatives
493:in 1926, Delany married
440:City College of New York
360:Early life and education
299:City College of New York
182:City College of New York
2233:New York Amsterdam News
1566:Boulé, History of the.
1390:St. Augustine's College
1317:Raleigh, North Carolina
1305:St. Augustine's College
1167:New York Public Library
948:all-white Southern jury
623:Assistant U.S. Attorney
386:Raleigh, North Carolina
323:Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
307:Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
264:Assistant U.S. Attorney
201:Assistant U.S. Attorney
145:Raleigh, North Carolina
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382:St. Augustine's School
316:Martin Luther King Jr.
2088:Erb, Kelly Phillips.
1811:Delany, Mrs. Hubert.
1454:Further information:
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726:. In 1939, after the
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495:Clarissa Scott Delany
456:New York Penn Station
347:Major League Baseball
1442:were winners of the
1276:illustrates why the
1035:, Hubert T. Delany,
978:Governor of New York
875:juvenile delinquency
859:Government of Israel
384:(now University) in
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2159:State of New York,
1357:New York University
1338:New York University
1272:life in the 1890s.
1137:Tel Aviv University
1061:Adam Clayton Powell
1017:Adam Clayton Powell
1001:Powell v. McCormack
928:William Robert Ming
909:Montgomery, Alabama
871:Minister of Justice
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708:, and labor leader
702:E. Franklin Frazier
698:Harlem riot of 1935
666:Morningside Heights
541:, she had attended
378:St. Mary's, Georgia
333:, singer and actor
163:Manhattan, New York
2482:People from Harlem
2452:Harlem Renaissance
2359:Worlds Without End
2334:Worlds Without End
2318:on April 12, 2015.
1936:The New York Times
1834:Delany, Hubert T.
1823:on March 24, 2015.
1766:The New York Times
1653:The New York Times
1478:Henry Beard Delany
1463:Henry Beard Delany
1423:Return to Nevèrÿon
1313:St. Agnes Hospital
1294:Harlem Renaissance
1282:racial segregation
1236:Henry Beard Delany
1211:Danville, Virginia
1203:St. Marys, Georgia
1195:American Civil War
1019:'s seating in the
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981:Nelson Rockefeller
972:Low-income housing
966:Coretta Scott King
861:invited Delany to
710:A. Philip Randolph
662:Washington Heights
611:The New York Times
571:family to host an
499:Harlem Renaissance
470:elementary schools
433:racial segregation
426:historically black
391:His older sisters
366:Henry Beard Delany
288:Harlem Renaissance
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1817:spence-chapin.org
1696:. Rochester, NY.
1578:on April 15, 2015
1187:enslaved Africans
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1115:Honors and legacy
1045:Henry R. Williams
815:Emile Zola Berman
751:Eleanor Roosevelt
732:Constitution Hall
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631:Charles H. Tuttle
607:Eleanor Roosevelt
561:Eleanor Roosevelt
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539:Yonkers, New York
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