and after serving in the army air corps in world war ii, he clerked for supreme court justice felix frankfurter as an attorney. he co-authored the legal brief in brown versus board of education which held school segregation to be unconstitutional and struck down the discredited notion of separate but equal. and through a long career in the law and in public service, bill coleman played a role in republican administrations from president eisenhower through president ford for whom he served as the first african-american cabinet member in a republican administration. president bill clinton awarded secretary coleman the presidential medal of freedom. william t. coleman jr. he was 97.
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