Clarence M. Dunnaville, Jr., has devoted his life to the advancement of civil rights. He grew up in the city of Roanoke, Virginia during the Jim Crow era. He fought segregation as a child by refusing to use segregated toilets or to sit in the back of the bus. During college he was a civil rights activist, picketing segregated theaters and participating in numerous student demonstrations and sit-ins that opened lunch counters to black citizens in Baltimore, Maryland In December 1953, Thurgood Marshall arranged for him to see the oral arguments of Brown v. Board of Education in the United States Supreme Court. That experience inspired Clarence to study law and work to end racial discrimination. He graduated with honors from Saint John’s University School of Law in Brooklyn, New York. In 1961, he was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York by Robert F. Kennedy. In addition to his work in law, he has been engaged in substantial community work and now serves as Vice Chair of the AUJ Board. For more information about his illustrious career, please see http://clarencedunnaville.com.