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Oliver Hill
Oliver White Hill (b.1907) became Richmond's first African American city councilman in the twentieth century.
From 1940 to 1961 he led the Virginia legal team of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), including work on the 1954 case that resulted in a ban on legally mandated
segregated schools.
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