About Harold Boulware
Lived 1913 – 1983 (aged 69–70). Harold Boulware was a judge.
Harold R. Boulware Sr. (March 1, 1913 - January 27, 1983) was a civil rights attorney and judge in the United States. He was chief attorney for the NAACP in South Carolina.
He was mentored by Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston. He passed the South Caroline bar examination and was licensed in 1940. He sued on behalf of a black applicant to the University of South Carolina's law school leading to the establishment of a law school for blacks at South Carolina State. A 1947 letter he wrote about a school busing case survives.
He is buried at Upper Pine Grove Cemetery in Irmo, South Carolina. In 2019 the South Carolina House of Representatives adopted a resolution honoring him.
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American civil rights lawyer
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Harold Boulware died in 1983.
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Harold Boulware was a judge.
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