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|name = Oliver W. Hill Sr.

|name = Oliver W. Hill Sr.

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|image = Oliver Hill.jpg

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|caption  = Oliver W. Hill Sr. far left

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|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1907|5|1}}

|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1907|5|1}}

|birth_place =  [[Richmond, Virginia]], [[United States]]

|birth_place =  [[Richmond, Virginia]], [[United States]]

|occupation    = [[Civil rights]] attorney

|occupation    = [[Civil rights]] attorney

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'''Oliver White Hill, Sr'''. (May 1, 1907 – August 5, 2007) was an American [[civil rights]] supporter from [[Richmond, Virginia]]. His work against [[discrimination]] helped end the common saying of "separate but equal". He also helped win landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for Black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury selection, and employment protection. He retired in 1998 after practicing [[law]] for almost 60 years. Along with his other awards, he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President [[Bill Clinton]] in 1999. During the [[1940|1940s]] and [[1950|1950s]], the safety of Hill's life and family were threatened by his work. Due to telephoned threats, Hill's young son was not allowed to answer the telephone, and at one point a cross was burned on the Hills' lawn. However, Hill continued to wage legal battles. After Brown vs. the Board of Education decision, Virginia under the Byrd Organization followed a policy known as massive resistance to avoid desegregation, enacting a legislative package known as the Stanley plan which included tuition grant support of segregation academies set up to avoid the extant public schools. Hill died at the age of 100 in 2007 in Richmond, Virginia.  

'''Oliver White Hill, Sr'''. (May 1, 1907 – August 5, 2007) was an American [[civil rights]] [[lawyer]] from [[Richmond, Virginia]].<ref name="Richmond Times Dispatch Biography">{{cite web|date=August 6, 2007|title=Oliver White Hill Bio- Oliver W. Hill Sr.|url=http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/oliverhill.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-08-06-0119.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070927003527/http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/oliverhill.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-08-06-0119.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=September 27, 2007|access-date=August 6, 2007|work=Richmond Times Dispatch}}</ref> His work against [[discrimination]] helped end "[[separate but equal]]".<ref name="VLWobit">''Virginia Lawyers Weekly'' obituary, August 14, 2007.</ref><ref>Robbins L. Gates, The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation 1954-1956 (University of North Carolina Press, 1964) pp. 141-143</ref> This was a reason used to support [[Racial segregation|segregation]] in the United States. He also helped win important legal decisions, such as equality in pay for black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury selection, and employment protection. He retired in 1998 after practicing [[law]] for almost 60 years. Along with his other awards, he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This was given to him by President [[Bill Clinton]] in 1999. During the 1940s and 1950s, Hill was unsafe because of what he did. Because people called to [[Threat|threaten]] Hill, Hill's young son was not allowed to answer the [[telephone]]. A [[Christian cross|cross]] was burned on the Hill family's lawn.<ref>Robbins L. Gates, The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation 1954-1956 (University of North Carolina Press, 1964) pp. 141-143</ref> Still, Hill continued to work for civil rights. Hill died at the age of 100 in 2007 in Richmond, Virginia.<ref name="brownat50.org">{{cite web|title=Oliver White Hill (1907-2007)|url=http://law.howard.edu/brownat50/BrownBios/BioOliverHill.html|access-date=20 November 2017|website=Howard University School of Law}}</ref>

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