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William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (July 7, 1920 – March 31, 2017) was an American attorney and judge. Coleman was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975, to January 20, 1977, and the second African American to serve in the United States Cabinet.
31 mar 2017 · William T. Coleman Jr., who championed the cause of civil rights in milestone cases before the Supreme Court and who rose above racial barriers himself as an influential lawyer and as a...
7 nov 2006 · William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., was the first African American to clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court justice, served as secretary of transportation under the Ford administration, and helped try numerous important civil rights cases.
9 ott 2008 · William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. grew up in Philadelphia and was exposed to “a great many worldly people,” including civil rights pioneer W.E.B. DuBois—a friend of Coleman's maternal aunt who occasionally joined the Coleman family for dinner—and poet Langston Hughes (pictured).
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16 dic 2007 · William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., a prominent Republican lawyer and businessman, served as Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford. Born on July 7, 1920 to a middle class Philadelphia, Pennsylvania family, Coleman attended a segregated elementary school.
31 mar 2017 · William T. Coleman Jr., who helped draft the landmark 1954 legal case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal and who later became the country’s second...
President Gerald Ford appointed William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., to serve as the nation's fourth secretary of the Department of Transportation on March 7, 1975, replacing Claude Brinegar, who had resigned. Coleman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1920, and attended local public schools.
