Black Fact = 1998 (December 13) – A.Leon Higginbotham,Jr. jurist,scholar, teacher, and humanitarian, died. Higginbotham is well remembered for his legal scholarship reflected in over 650 published legal opinions, articles, and books on racial law in Colonial America. Higginbotham was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on February 25, 1928, to Aloysius Leon Higginbotham, Sr., a factory laborer, and Emma Lee Douglass, a domestic worker. He was the first student at his small, all-black grammar school to be promoted to the traditionally all-white academic track at Ewing Park High School. Higginbotham proved to be a top student, the beneficiary of considerable extracurricular academic support provided by his mother, including private tutors the family could scarcely afford. Later, he recalled what a struggle it was to escape the discrimination and poverty of his neighborhood. #theraydiotwins
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