What is Wilford Horace Smith?
[[File:Wilford H. Smith.JPG|thumb|Smith around 1900]] '''Wilford Horace Smith''' (April 1863 - June 9, 1926) was an [[Americans|American]] [[lawyer]] who specialized in [[constitutional law]]. He was the first [[African-American]] [[lawyer]] to win a [[Legal case|case]] before the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].<ref>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</ref> ==Biography== Smith was born in April of 1863 in [[Mississippi]].<ref>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.</ref> His father was from [[Virginia]] and his mother from [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilford_Horace_Smith_in_the_1900_United_States_Census_in_Galveston,_Texas.jpg |title=Wilford H. Smith in the 1900 United States Census living in Galveston, Texas |date=1910 |access-date=2015-10-07 }}</ref> He attended [[Boston University School of Law]] and [[graduation|graduated]] in 1883. He married in 1895, and around the same year moved to [[Galveston, Texas]] to practice law. He moved to [[Manhattan, New York City]] by 1910.<ref>{{cite book |author=Susan D. Carle |title=Defining the Struggle: National Racial Justice Organizing, 1880-1915 |year=2013 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRqRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA129 |isbn=9780199945740 }}</ref> He died on June 9, 1926, in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]].<ref>New York City Death Index</ref> ==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== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Wilford, Horace}} [[Category:1863 births]] [[Category:1926 deaths]] [[Category:African-American lawyers]] [[Category:American civil rights ac