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REFLECTIONS fter watching Perry Mason as a kid on a black and white TV, I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer. I was born and raised in the small town of Taylorsville, North Carolina, the eighth of ten kids, the last seven of which were the product of my parent’s marriage to each other. I attended an allblack school for grades one through eight until the Civil Rights Movement put an end to segregation. I was the first and last black male to graduate with honors from Taylorsville High School as it closed the year after I graduated. Thanks to affirmative action, I was accepted to and graduated from North Carolina State University in 1974.
After watching Perry Mason as a kid on a black and white TV, I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer.
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