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Spottswood William Robinson III (July 26, 1916 – October 11, 1998) was an American educator, civil rights attorney, and federal judge. In the early 1950s, Robinson and his law-partner Oliver Hill litigated several civil rights lawsuits in Virginia. In 1951, Robinson and Hill took up the cause of the African American students at the segregated R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia who had walked out of their dilapidated school. The subsequent lawsuit, ''Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County'', was consolidated with four other cases decided under ''Brown v. Board of Education'' by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954. In his arguments before the Court, Robinson made the first argument on behalf of the plaintiffs.〔() Brown〕 Robinson was appointed by President Johnson in 1966 to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the first African-American so appointed and, later, became the first African American to Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Circuit.〔 ==Biography== He was born in Richmond, Virginia on 26 July 1916. His father was a lawyer. He received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Union University. In 1939 he received his law degree from Howard University, graduating first in his class and achieving the highest scholastic average in the history of the Howard University Law School. He was a faculty member of the Howard University School of Law from his graduation in 1939 until 1947, and was one of the core attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) from 1948 to 1960. Through the NAACP Legal Defense Fund he worked on cases such as ''Brown v. Board of Education'', which ended segregation in public schools, and ''Chance v. Lambeth'', which invalidated carrier-enforced racial segregation in interstate transportation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III )〕 Robinson was named Dean of the Howard University School of Law in 1960, remaining in that position through 1963. He also served as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1961 to 1963. In 1964 he became the first African-American to be appointed the United States district court for the District of Columbia. In 1966 Robinson became the first African-American appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit when he was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson. On May 7, 1981, he became the first African American to serve as Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Circuit Court. Judge Robinson took senior status in 1989 and later retired. He died on October 11, 1998 in Richmond, Virginia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spottswood William Robinson III」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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