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Nathaniel Colley Sculpture Fund
“I had a mission to make the world a better place
through law!”
Nathaniel Colley
Nathaniel Colley was Sacramento's first practicing African-American attorney and pioneering civil rights advocate during the last half of the 20th century. Please join the Sacramento Historical Society in celebrating and honoring Colley’s inspirational life’s work by supporting the design and construction of a sculpture of Colley to be placed in the Sacramento Federal Courthouse. Colley successfully pioneered and spearheaded national federal housing and funding discrimination Civil Rights litigation. His efforts made a profound and lasting impact in California and beyond.
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