ABSTRACT
Born: February 27, 1886; Harlan, Alabama Died: September 25, 1971; Bethesda, Maryland Area of Achievement: Law Contribution: As a Justice of the Supreme Court,
Black sought to define and in some areas extend constitutional protection of civil liberties, while delineating the prerogatives of government; for more than one-third of a century, he propounded the absolute inviolability of the Constitution as the basis of the nation's jurisprudence.
