List of first minority male lawyers and judges in South Dakota
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in South Dakota. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are those who achieved other distinctions, such becoming the first in their state to obtain a law degree or become a political figure.
Firsts in state history
James Abourezk: First Lebanese American and Arab American male to serve as a U.S. Senator from South Dakota (1973)
Lawyers
- Will F. Reden (1908):[1][2][3] First African American male lawyer in South Dakota
- Madison Jackson:[4][5] First African American male admitted to the State Bar of South Dakota
- Ramon Roubideaux (1950):[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] First American Indian (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) male lawyer in South Dakota
- Terry L. Pechota (1972):[14][15][16] A Sioux Indian male lawyer who is among the "First Thirteen" Native American lawyers to have argued federal Indian law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
United States Attorney
- Terry L. Pechota (1972):[14][15][16] First Sioux Indian male to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota (1979-1981)
Political Office
- James Abourezk (c. 1966):[17][18] First Lebanese American and Arab American male (a lawyer) to serve as a United States Senator from South Dakota (1973)
Other topics of interest
References
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- Bernson, Sara L.; Eggers, Robert J. (1977). "Black People in South Dakota History" (PDF). South Dakota State Historical Society.
- Streitmatter, Rodger (2015-01-13). Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813149059.
- Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (2009). Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195387957.
- "1st Native American Lawyer in SD Dies". ABA Journal. Martha Neil. Retrieved 2018-01-28.CS1 maint: others (link)
- "Groundbreaking American Indian lawyer dies". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
- Lazarus, Edward (1999). Black Hills White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803279876.
- Bordewich, Fergus M. (1997). Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385420365.
- Rights, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional (1962). Constitutional Rights of the American Indian: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 53. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- The Amerindian. M. E. Gridley. 1971.
- Banks, Dennis (2011-11-28). Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806183312.
- "Affirmative Action: An opportunity to escape wage slavery". Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. 2003-11-15. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- "Pechota Law Office". pechotalawrc.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- "Slush fund defendants claim sovereign immunity". navajotimes.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- Doll, Don (1994-10-25). Vision quest: men, women, and sacred sites of the Sioux Nation. Crown Publishers. ISBN 9780517599044.
- "James Abourezk | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- "Personality: James Abourezk – 1982 September 6 - WRMEA". www.wrmea.org. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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