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Meghan Leonard
@ProfLeonard_ISU
Associate Professor - Political Science Illinois State University: judicial politics & state supreme courts. Also tweeting cats, WNBA, & women’s sports. she/her
Feb 1, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
1/#OTD in 1870, Jonathan Jasper Wright became the first black state supreme court justice in American history. He served on the South Carolina Supreme Court, the next stop on our #52courts52weeks tour! #BlackHistoryMonth 2/ When Wright was on the Court, he and his colleagues worked out of the State House. It was not until 1971 that the Court finally moved into its own building – the renovated Columbia Post Office.