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Obituary for CLEMENT GARNETT MORGAN

Clement Morgan was a lawyer who fought for civil rights on a local and national scale. Born to enslaved parents in Virginia, he was the first African-American to earn both a bachelor’s and law degree from Harvard University. Morgan played a legal role in many civil rights cases, spoke eloquently at rallies for social justice, and was a leader in the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was also active in Cambridge politics, becoming the city’s first African-American member of the Board of Aldermen in 1896.