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Subject: [KYBELL] State's First Negro Lawyer Dies, Aged 75
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:04:49 EDT


Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 31, 1921

State's First Negro Lawyer Dies, Aged 75
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 31 -- N.R. Harper, 75, first negro admitted to the
Kentucky bar, and long a leader of his race, died of pneumonia. He as admitted to
the bar in 1873.


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