Talk:Oliver Hill (attorney)

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Did You Know

...that Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney, worked against racial discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period of massive resistance to integration in Virginia's public schools, practicing law for almost 60 years?

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he is a great man and did a lot for this country.


 * I agree, and I was the principal writer for the article when it was added to WP.However, our personal point(s) of view (POV) don't belong in a WP article, just the facts, so I deleted your statement there. Happy 100th birthday this month to Mr. Hill. Vaoverland 19:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

His Race
I think it is important for non-Americans to know what race he was, given the context for which he is famous. Since he attended Howard, I presume he was black, but it would be nice to know for sure. 128.6.62.33 20:45, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * He is stated as an African American several times throughout the article. --RandomOrca2 21:20, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Lots of work needed
Both dead links and a very odd writing style make this a problem biography. Unfortunately, I don't know where I can find time to fix it.Jweaver28 (talk) 18:00, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Having briefly met Oliver Hill many years ago, as well as now having read the Margaret Edds book which may have been linked to this page in 2018, I'm writing to suggest that someone raise this article up a class or 2 using that book. I've only managed to do tweaks here in the intervening years, because of my other responsibilities, as well as problems with hackers. Probably Hill and Judge Robinson would be appalled (but not surprised) by various scurrilous activities to support either real estate interests or political campaigns generally.Jweaver28 (talk) 15:39, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Name issue
I've been working on this very slowly, as I have many other responsibilities. This just notes that per Jeanette Rook's edits a while ago, the original name on Oliver Hill's birth certificate appears to have been Charles White. However, Wikipedia is not a place for original research, so I noted that with a fairly lengthy footnote. Without original research (which I'm not about to do, and really to be used in wikipedia should be published), the exact date of the first name change to "Oliver" is simply not available. The ancestry.com website fairly easily accessed in public libraries does not make the original or revised birth certificate issued 9 months after his birth (and about 3 months after his father abandoned the family) available (only the revised certificate issued after he was drafted in 1942). The site either does not have (or makes available only for a fee) his 1934 marriage and 2007 death certificates. I don't know if 9 months was an inordinate delay for issuing an infant's birth certificate in Virginia at the time, nor when his step-father died, nor the name used on his 1934 marriage certificate. Conceivably, Hill may have been dotting I's and crossing Ts before going off to war, to insure his wife would receive appropriate benefits. That he doesn't mention the issue in the autobiography might mean he considered the issue private, or confusing. Clearly, his notable achievements were under the name Oliver Hill.Jweaver28 (talk) 17:47, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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