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Lee was the first lawyer for the " Greensboro Four / A & T Four ", who were instrumental in one of the earliest of the " Sit-Ins " during the Civil rights movement, and who were students of his alma mater, North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro, NC.
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The truth in their conflicting concepts was expounded by statesmen of the calibre of Webster and Calhoun, and defended in the end by leaders of the nobility of Lincoln and Lee.
This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.
Victim of the accident was Robert Lee Stansbery, 39.
Stein's fee, Lee said, was 10 per cent of the janitors' pay.
But before anything could happen Frankie Ricco was between them and Eddie Lee had come into the dressing room.
Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.
In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.
Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, but continued to command his troops for some weeks.
He was replaced by George Meade, who followed Lee into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign, which was a victory for the Union, though Lee's army avoided capture.
On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the war was effectively over.
Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.
Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.
An adjacent marker was erected by the San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of The Republic of Texas and the Lee, Roberts, and Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederate States of America.
The term " allophone " was coined by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s.
Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).
Schools will vary in their approach, but in North America the most popular method taught derives from the " system " of Constantin Stanislavski, which was developed and popularised in America by Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and others.
Lee Blakeley directed and Andrew George was the choreographer.
Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.
The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
Producer Lee Smith was dropped and KRS-One adopted the Teacha moniker and made a deliberate attempt at creating politically and socially conscious Hip-Hop.
Original member Lee Smith, who has co-producer credit on the original 12 ” " South Bronx " single, was the last to be inexplicably jettisoned by KRS-One and the future new label after Scott ’ s death.
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In 1976, Concord High School Junior Wai Lee assembled one of the first 12 Apple Is ( no serial number ), the first Apple Computer in an aluminum housing.
The Rockies won, 9 – 2, with Andy Benes on the mound for the Diamondbacks, and Travis Lee being the first player to hit, score, homer and drive in a run.
* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )
Shaping Edwin ’ s ambitious journey in the world of the theater is his love of three women: the beautiful, strong-minded Julia Scarlet, whom he first meets in Ann Arbor ; the emotionally fragile and haunting Jessamy Lee, and the very private and mysterious leading lady Adelina Kane, idol of the American stage.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.
Things were no better in 2005, despite a career year from first baseman Derrek Lee and the emergence of closer Ryan Dempster.
Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead ( Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins ).
* 1799 – Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee declares him as " first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.
Moments later, Lee is called to his first match and his opponent turns out to be O ' Hara, who is clearly outclassed and eventually attacks Lee with broken bottles.
* 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
Derrek Lee and Luis Castillo broke out this year as well, as Castillo posted a. 334 batting average and Lee had 28 homers in his first full season.
For his first local gigs in the early 1970s and Rush's debut album, Lee used a Fender Precision Bass.
Occasionally, in the later years, Roni Stoneman ( in her role as Ida Lee Nagger ) would sometimes do the first verse.
Houston sent second baseman Joe Morgan, infielder Denis Menke, pitcher Jack Billingham, outfielder Cesar Geronimo and prospect Ed Armbrister to Cincinnati for first baseman Lee May, second baseman Tommy Helms and infielder Jimmy Stewart.
Created by writer Stan Lee and artist / co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in X-Men vol.
Iceman was created by writer Stan Lee and artist / co-writer Jack Kirby, and first appeared in X-Men vol.
* 1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
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* 1946 – Lee Bollinger, American lawyer and educator
* Joseph Lee Smith ( 1776 – 1846 ), American lawyer, soldier, and jurist
As Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew described to the BBC and in his memoirs, due to his experiences as a trial lawyer, " I had no faith in a system that allowed the superstition, ignorance, biases, and prejudices of seven jurymen to determine guilt or innocence.
" Other cast members include Dennis Christopher as Candie family lawyer Leonide ' Leo ' Moguy, Laura Cayouette as Candie's sister, Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly, M. C.
Harold Lee Washington ( April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987 ) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.
Peck won the Academy Award with his fifth nomination, playing Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
* F. Lee Bailey, famed criminal defense lawyer
* F. Lee Bailey, defense lawyer.
A television programme hosted by celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey was broadcast on WOR in New York on 30 November in which Bailey cross-examined LaBour and other " witnesses " about the rumour, but he left it to the viewer to determine conclusions.
The account of how this city received its name varies: one tradition claims it was named after the lawyer Nathan Arlington Cornish ; another tradition claims that the Southern inhabitants of this city had enough clout to rename the city after Arlington, Virginia, home of general Robert E. Lee.
Cady's new lawyer, Lee Heller ( Gregory Peck ), also files a complaint with the North Carolina State Bar, vowing to have Bowden disbarred from practicing law.
Rex Edwin Lee ( February 27, 1935 — March 11, 1996 ) from St. Johns, Arizona was a Constitutional lawyer, a law clerk for former U. S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General under the Reagan administration.
Following his clerkship at the United States Supreme Court, Lee returned to his home state of Arizona, where, as a partner in the Phoenix law firm of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, he established himself as a lawyer of promise.
* Charles Lee ( Attorney General ) ( 1758 – 1815 ), American lawyer and former United States Attorney General
Charles Lee ( 1758 – June 24, 1815 ) was an American lawyer from Virginia.
Before A. C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.
Portia Lee James DeGeneres ( born Amanda Lee Rogers ; 31 January 1973 ), known professionally as Portia de Rossi (), is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and Lindsay Fünke on the sitcom Arrested Development.
Following in the anti-naturalist economic legacy of Veblen, Ely, and Commons, Robert Lee Hale, a lawyer and economist from Columbia University, argued in his path-breaking Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State that the market economy was in fact an organized form of coercion of the property-less by the property owners.
The election of a Negro to hold court so angered W. N. Lee, a white lawyer of Little Rock who was originally from Mississippi, that he engaged in a fisticuff with Hale for nominating Jones and declared he would not live in a state in which white people would elect a Negro.
* Art Lee ( born 1947 ), Canadian politician and lawyer
Domenici has denied trying to influence Iglesias, and has hired lawyer K. Lee Blalack II to represent him.
Elliot Lee Richardson ( July 20, 1920 December 31, 1999 ) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
* Sandy Lee, lawyer and politician
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