- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 49 min., 25 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Trial lawyer Alvin Dwight Petit was born on September 29, 1945 in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. In 1958, his father, an engineer, initiated a lawsuit against Harford County, Maryland school officials. Represented by Thurgood Marshall, Petit won his suit, forcing the school system to integrate the all-white Aberdeen High School, from which he graduated in 1963. Petit earned his B.A. degree from Howard University in 1967, and his law degree from Howard in 1970. From 1970 until 1973, he worked as a trial attorney for the Small Business Administration. In 1973, Petit brought the first suit in the country against Maryland for discrimination in the bar examination. The case would lead to other states changing its testing practices. In 1973, Petit left the SBA and formed Mitchell, Petit, David and Gill and later his own practice. One of the most prominent criminal and personal injury attorneys in Maryland, he and his wife, Barbara, resided in Baltimore.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with A. Dwight Pettit
- A. Dwight Pettit
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Access (note)
- Available to users with a valid Harvard ID and PIN.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 998757555
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with A. Dwight Pettit.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
024925
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 August 25.
- Restricted Access
Available to users with a valid Harvard ID and PIN. MH
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Trial Lawyer.
- Added Author
Pettit, A. Dwight, 1945- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.