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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Matthew J. Perry |
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, South Carolina , United States |
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August 03, 1921
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| Died | July 29, 2011
(89 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Matthew James Perry, Jr. was an attorney and in 1979 appointed as the first African-American United States federal judge in South Carolina. In 1976 he had been the first African-American attorney from the Deep South to be appointed to the federal judiciary, which he served in the Military Appeals Court.
He established his career with civil rights litigation, defending Gloria Blackwell in Orangeburg, South Carolina, in her 1962 suit against her arrest for sitting in the whites-only area of the regional hospital while waiting for emergency treatment for her daughter. Other landmark cases included achieving the integration of Clemson University and reapportionment of the state legislature
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