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Joseph Hatchett, first Black Florida Supreme Court Justice, dies at 88 | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The Clearwater native’s pioneering legal career took him to Florida’s highest court and the federal judiciary. By Howard Cohen, Tampa Bay Times When a young Joseph W. Hatchett took the Florida Bar exam in 1960, he could not stay in the Miami hotel in which the test was given because of Jim Crow regulations. Within […]

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