Amos T. Hall (October 2, 1896 – November 12, 1971) was a lawyer, judge, and civil rights leader in the United States. He was born in

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. He went to schools there and graduated from

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. He represented the Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers in the 1948 equal pay suit, Freeman v. Oklahoma City School Board. He was appointed in 1969 and elected in 1970 to judgeships. He was the first African-American to be elected as a judge in Oklahoma. He served as president of the Tulsa branch of the NAACP for 11 years. He represented

Ada Lois Sipuel Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (February 8, 1924 – October 18, 1995) was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma. She applied for admission into the University of Oklahoma law school in order to challenge the state's segregation law ...

in the Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma in 1948 challenging "separate but equal" segregation. He was in the masonic fraternity. To avoid admitting her to the University of Oklahoma's law school after the ruling,

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in the state capitol was established in Oklahoma after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Sipuel be admitted to the state's law school. She sued again and was admitted it the state's law school in 1949. With

Spencer Williams Jr. Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Andy on TV's ''Amos 'n' Andy#Television, The Amos 'n' Andy Show'' and directed films including the 1941 race film ''The Blood of Jesus'' ...

he organized the American Business and Industrial College in Tulsa for GIs. He was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Amos T. 1896 births 1971 deaths American judges American civil rights lawyers

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