http://blog.oup.com/2009/01/a-leon-higginbotham-jr/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2009/01/a-leon-higginbotham-jr/comment-page-1/#comment-194536 Murray Simon Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:03:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2850#comment-194536 Judge Higgenbotham is a great American, but I don't believe he was the first Afican American to enroll in Trenton High School My father, Alex Simon graduated from Trenton High in 1928 and had African American classmates. I graduated from Trenton HS in 1963 and the sons of some of my father's classmates were in my class. They have a collection of yearbooks in the Trenton Public Library on Academy Street and you can probably research this further at that location. Judge Higgenbotham is a great American, but I don’t believe he was the first Afican American to enroll in Trenton High School My father, Alex Simon graduated from Trenton High in 1928 and had African American classmates. I graduated from Trenton HS in 1963 and the sons of some of my father’s classmates were in my class. They have a collection of yearbooks in the Trenton Public Library on Academy Street and you can probably research this further at that location.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2009/01/a-leon-higginbotham-jr/comment-page-1/#comment-149058 8Asians.com » Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:01:22 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2850#comment-149058 [...] topic. The Oxford University Press chose to honor Martin Luther King Jr day (last Monday) with an article on another prominent civil rights leader in the United States, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Although Judge Higginbotham was not as well known [...] [...] topic. The Oxford University Press chose to honor Martin Luther King Jr day (last Monday) with an article on another prominent civil rights leader in the United States, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Although Judge Higginbotham was not as well known [...]

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