Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr., was the first black partner in a major New York firm, the first black member of a Fortune 500 board, and one of the first black attorneys to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Pierce was born in 1922 in Glen Cove, New York. He received a football scholarship […]
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