John Robert Clifford was a well-known attorney throughout the state of West Virginia. He won a trailblazing victory in Williams vs Board of Education that found discriminatory practices in public education illegal. Clifford was born in 1848 in Williamsport, Virginia. His parents and grandparents were free blacks who had lived in Virginia for several generations. […]
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