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This newspaper article advocates for the election of Lawyer G. Edward Dickerson as representative of the Second Senatorial District of Philadelphia. It lists the many times he has stood up for African-American citizens, including how he defended…

J. Austin Norris, a prominent Philadelphia African American lawyer, lost the Democratic election in the 7th Ward in early June 1938. Norris often looked out for the President of Berean Savings I. Maximilian Martin.

A poster advertising the upcoming discourse on the Ku Klux Klan by two prominent black lawyers of the time.