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How The Cleveland Bar Became Segregated: 1870-1930, Robert N. Strassfeld
How The Cleveland Bar Became Segregated: 1870-1930, Robert N. Strassfeld
Robert N. Strassfeld
Abstract
Paper Title: How the Cleveland Bar Became Segregated: 1900-1930
This article examines the changing perimeters of professional opportunity and the professional choices made by Cleveland’s African American lawyers in the early twentieth century. At the turn of the century, the Cleveland bar could fairly be described as racially integrated. The openness of the bar and the response of African American lawyers shaped the day-to-day professional lives of those lawyers. This openness manifested itself in a number of interracial law practices, in a client base for black lawyers that was predominantly white, in the court appointment practices of white judges, …