On February 1, 1865, John Sweat Rock, a distinguished Boston lawyer, became the first African American admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Rock was also the first Black person to address the U.S. House of Representatives. A physician, dentist, abolitionist, and orator, he was a powerful advocate for civil rights and Black self-determination during the Civil War era.
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