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| Birthplace |
Ocala, Florida
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| Died |
14th September, 1989
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Lawson E. Thomas was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as the first African-American judge appointed in the American South since Reconstruction. As a lawyer, he maintained his own legal practice which was unusual for a black attorney in Florida at the time. Lawson Thomas took on and won many civil rights cases in Florida and was a key figure in wade-ins that led to the establishment of Virginia Key as the first black beach in Miami Dade County.
