Albertis S. Harrison Jr., Davis Y. Paschall, Ted Dalton, Oliver W. Hill, Hardy Cross Dillard, George M. Cochran, Lewis F. Powell Jr., J. Sloan Kuykendall, Albert V. Bryan, Jr., Alexander M. Harman, Jr., Colgate W. Darden Jr.

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Commission on Constitutional Revision. The Constitution of Virginia: Report of the Commission on Constitutional Revision to His Excellency, Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (Richmond, 1969)

Call number: Signed Collection. KFV 2801 1902 .A183

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1969

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Front Free Endpaper

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In 1968, Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr. appointed a bipartisan commission to revise the Virginia Constitution of 1902. The commission set out to expand African American voting rights and eliminate the poll tax. This report outlined the suggested changes of the commission. For more than three decades before serving on the commission, Richmond civil rights attorney Oliver Hill (fourth from top) helped lead the Virginia NAACP in challenging segregation. Hill was a leading lawyer in Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward, one of the five suits consolidated into Brown v. Board.