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Wilford Horace Smith
1863–1926
United States
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Wilford H. Smith (c. 1863 – June 9, 1926) was an African-American lawyer who was active in Mississippi, Texas, New York and Alabama between 1883 and 1926. In 1900 Smith became the first black attorney to win a case before the United States Supreme Court with Carter v.
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