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Earl B. Dickerson

CTL-E-1357 · Person · 1920-1971 (Supreme Life); died 1986

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

First African American to earn a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (1920), general counsel and later president of Supreme Life, 'dean of Chicago's Black lawyers,' architect of the mortgage loan behind Hansberry v. Lee (1940), organizer of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Chicago's first Black Democratic alderman.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-023; source research type(s): person.

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