Samuel Snipes, activist lawyer dies at age 99 in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Samuel Snipes, a white lawyer who held off an angry mob while representing the first black family to move into the all-white development of Levittown, Pennsylvania, has died. He was 99.

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