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William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (July 7, 1920 – March 31, 2017) was an American attorney and judge. Coleman was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975, to January 20, 1977, and the second African American to serve in the United States Cabinet.
Apr 1, 2017 · WASHINGTON (AP) — William T. Coleman Jr., a civil rights lawyer from Philadelphia who prevailed in several landmark Supreme Court cases, broke a number of racial barriers in his own right and...
Nov 7, 2006 · William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., was the first African American to clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court justice, served as secretary of transportation under the Ford administration, and helped try numerous important civil rights cases.
Complete order of William Coleman books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
William B. Coleman, prisoner who carried out hunger strike which led to the Lantz v. Coleman case addressing the constitutionality of force-feeding See also [ edit ]
Apr 4, 2017 · William T. Coleman Jr. ’46, the former secretary of transportation and one of the lead strategists and co-authors of the legal briefs for the appellants in Brown v. Board of Education, died March 31.
President Gerald Ford appointed William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., to serve as the nation's fourth secretary of the Department of Transportation on March 7, 1975, replacing Claude Brinegar, who had resigned. Coleman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1920, and attended local public schools.
