Supreme Court Justice Timeline by Yash Nevatia https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h The Life Of Hugo Black en-us 2020-12-21 03:57:02 UTC 2026-01-06 05:38:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Birth (1886) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035201587 Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black is born on February 27, 1886, in Clay County, Alabama. Black was the eighth, and youngest child of Martha Toland and William Black. ]]> 2020-12-21 04:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035201587 College (1903) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035204638 Justice Hugo Black attended Ashland College, and enrolled in their Medical College in 1903. However, Black realized that medicine was not his field, and switched to the two-year program at the University of Alabama Law School in 1904. ]]> 2020-12-21 04:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035204638 Hugo Black in College (1903) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035207092 2020-12-21 04:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035207092 Justice Hugo Black's Big Break (1911) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035210673 Hugo Black's big break came in 1911, when he represented an African-American laborer who was forced to work beyond his sentence. The judge of this case was truly impressed with Black's work, and asked him to serve as a police court judge for the University of Birmingham. ]]> 2020-12-21 04:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035210673 Black joins the KKK (1923) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035214716 In September, 1923, Hugo Black joined the Ku Klux Klan]]> 2020-12-21 04:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035214716 Hugo Black Fights For Minimum Wage increases (1927) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035216505 In 1927, years after his departure from the KKK, Black had reformed, and began to fight for minimum wage increases, as well as fought for fair labor. ]]> 2020-12-21 04:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035216505 Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice (1937) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035218104 On August 18, 1937, Hugo Black was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice. President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that Black was needed in the chamber more than the Senate floor.]]> 2020-12-21 04:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035218104 Sworn in As Alabama Senator (1927) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035220378 2020-12-21 04:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035220378 Historic Court Rulings & Decisions 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035222509 Justice Hugo Black believed that his two most notable and memorable cases were Adamson v. California (1940), a case about whether the Fifth Amendment is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Black believed that this case was his greatest contribution. The other noteworthy case was Chambers v. Florida (1940), another case regarding the Fourteenth Amendment. ]]> 2020-12-21 04:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035222509 Death (1971) 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035228073 Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black left office in 1971 following a stroke, and died eight days later. Black served 34 years in the court as a Justice. ]]> 2020-12-21 04:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035228073 Works Cited 21600601 https://padlet.com/21600601/ppqog4w0r6gm5i4h/wish/1035230265 "Hugo L. Black." Oyez, www.oyez.org/justices/hugo_l_black. Accessed 20 Dec. 2020.

Lannacci, Nicandro. “Hugo Black, Unabashed Partisan for the Constitution.” National Constitution Center – Constitutioncenter.org, constitutioncenter.org/blog/hugo-black-unabashed-partisan-for-the-constitution. 




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