Record #:

2154

Author(s):

Ballance, Vershenia M.

Abstract:

Born in Greensboro in 1902, Conrad Odell Pearson became the premier pioneer for civil rights in the state. His legal career covered university and public school desegregation cases as well as contact with such civil rights leaders as Thurgood Marshall.

Source:

North Carolina State Bar Quarterly (NoCar KF 200 N65), Vol. 41 Issue 4, Fall 1994, p34-35, por

Subject(s):

Pearson, Conrad Odell, 1902-1984; African American lawyers--Biography; Civil rights workers