Virgil Hawkins's Fight to Study and Practice Law in Florida

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Martin Dyckman
• David Coburn

Files

Publication Date

2-2006

Abstract

The story of African-American Virgil Hawkins and his fight to be admitted to the University of Florida Law school and then to practice law in the state. Martin Dyckman and David Coburn contribute.

Keywords

African Americans, Race relations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination, Racism, University of Florida, Law schools, Courts, Florida Bar

Extent

00:06:17; 5 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Alachua County (Fla.); Gainesville (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1090

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Dyckman, Martin; and Coburn, David, "Virgil Hawkins's Fight to Study and Practice Law in Florida" (2006). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 91.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/91