Oliver W Hill Sr. and Eagles

Oliver White Hill was born in Richmond, Virginia on May 1, 1907.  Oliver Hill earned his undergraduate degree from Howard University and graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1933. Hill was a classmate and close friend (and friendly rival) of Thurgood Marshall in law school. They remained close throughout Marshall's life, working together on numerous cases for the NAACP and LDF, most famously the Brown cases at the Supreme Court. Hill was the lead counsel for one of the state cases consolidated with Brown, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County. Hill was inspired by Charles Hamilton Houston and his vision of lawyers as transformative social engineers.  Hill said in his typical direct and unaffected manner, "I went to law school so I could go out and fight segregation. Hill practiced law in Virginia, working at first within the seperate-but-equal framework of Plessy on a broad equalization campaign for better pay, transportation, and facilities for African American teachers and students.  Working with Thurgood Marshall, William H. Hastie, and Leon A. Ranson, Hill won a critical case in 1940 ordering equal pay for black and white teachers. Alston v. School Board of Norfolk, Va., 112 F.2d 992 (4th Cir.), cert. denied 311 U.S. 693 (1940). n 1943 Hill joined the army.  Upon returning from service in Europe, Hill continued his struggle. He won the right for equal transportation for school children in the Virginia Supreme Court as he had won the right for equal pay for teachers in the 4th Circuit.  In 1948 after Spottswood Robinson was named special NAACP counsel in Virginia,  Hill and Robinson filed dozens of cases against school districts throughout the state, with as many as 75 pending at one time. (Kluger, p. 473) In 1950 the NAACP decided to stop filing the equalization suits and instead attack the entire premise of the system head-on.  The record of massively unequal systems, of constant resistance even to court ordered equalization, and of the general intrangisence with respect to changing the system was important for supporting the frontal attack that was now underway.  Seperate but equal was demonstrably not working or workable.  

The eagles are black. They are just sitting there like statues its weird. But they are so cute at it. I think they really like wind on their feathers that would explain some things. Ill miss them when they learn to fly but the alcoa people its gonna be a while till they do and they'll be flying in and out of the nest. http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp