Wilford Horace Smith
Wilford Horace Smith (April 1863 - June 9, 1926) was an
African-American lawyer to win a case before the Supreme Court of the United States, Carter v. Texas.[1]
Historian R. Volney Smith called him "the best lawyer" arguing against southern laws disenfranchising African Americans in the
Jim Crow era, "unassuming, ambitious, and brilliant."[2]
Biography
Smith was born in April 1863 in Mississippi.[3] His father was from Virginia and his mother from Kentucky.[4]
He attended
Writings
- Carter v. Texas (1900)
- The Negro and the Law (1903)
- "Is the Negro Disfranchised?", The Outlook, April 29, 1905, pp. 1047-1048
- The Negro's Right to Jury Representation (c. 1909)
References
- ^ R. Volney Riser, Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), p. 101
- OCLC 1124329524.
- ^ R. Volney Riser uses the year 1860 in Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908, however the 1900 and 1910 US census both use 1863 as the year of birth.
- ^ "Wilford H. Smith in the 1900 United States Census living in Galveston, Texas". 1910. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
- ISBN 9780199945740.
- ^ New York City Death Index
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