This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Derrick Alexander Pope of Hidden Legal Figures The Podcast ( https://onthearc.net/  )

 

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In honor of Black History Month, Great Trials Podcast hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey joined forces with Hidden Legal Figures podcast host Derrick Alexander Pope to discuss Holmes v. Danner, the landmark University of Georgia desegregation case. In 1960, a lawsuit was filed against Walter Danner, the university registrar, by two African-American students who were unfairly denied admission. On Jan. 6, 1961, Judge William A. Bootle ruled that the two students were "fully qualified for immediate admission," adding that they "would already have been admitted had it not been for their race and color." Derrick also discusses the trial lawyers who played a vital role in the Civil Rights movement as well as his involvement with the Arc of Justice Project and the Hidden Legal Figures podcast.

 

 

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Guest Bio:

 

Derrick Alexander Pope

 

Derrick A. Pope is President and founding Director of The Arc of Justice Institute. In this role, he has responsibility for all aspects of the standing initiatives and programs of the Institute beginning with developing and managing the exhibit initiative and accompanying programs.

 

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Pope is a 1987 graduate of Morris Brown College and a 1992 graduate of Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, earning top honors in the Loyola Law Clinic.

Mr. Pope has a distinguished career in the public, private and academic sectors. He has provided counsel to the legislative and executive branches of government at the federal, state, and county level and has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgia State University College of Law. In private practice, he has helped protect the inheritance rights of more than 500 families throughout Georgia.

 

Mr. Pope has several published works to his credit. He is the author of By the Content of Our Character: A Declaration of Independence for Colored Folks, Negroes, Black People and African Americans and Thy Will Be Done: An African American Guide to Estate Planning and the Howard Law Journal article, A Constitutional Window to Interpretive Reason: Or in other Words...The Ninth Amendment. In 2012 teaming with his daughter he released a spoken word CD – The Race Track.

 

Mr. Pope is a member of the State Bar of Georgia (Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Committee to Promote Inclusion in the Profession, member Advisory Committee on Legislation and Communications/Cornerstones of Freedom Program), the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society, and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

 

He is married to Lanette Pope and they have one daughter, Sydney Alizabeth, a student at Valdosta State University.  

 

 

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