Background
Nabrit III was born in Houston, Texas to James Nabrit, Junior., a prominent civil rights attorney, law professor and later President of Howard University.
Nabrit III was born in Houston, Texas to James Nabrit, Junior., a prominent civil rights attorney, law professor and later President of Howard University.
He grew up in Washington, District of Columbia, where he attended segregated public schools through part of high school.
He finished high school at the Mount Hermon School for Boys, now Northfield Mount Hermon, in Massachusetts. Nabrit III graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1952 and Yale Law School in 1955. Nabrit began his career with the law firm of Reeves, Robinson & Duncan, served two years in the United States. Army and then spent 30 years (1959-1989) as an attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated.
He argued many important civil rights cases before the United States. Supreme Court and various United States. Court of Appeals, including Swann v.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1972, and Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham in 1969. Nabrit died on March 22, 2013 in a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland suffering from lung cancer.
He was 80.