decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States19 forbidding racial discrimination in jury
selection overruled the Taylor case. Wilson, however, was never admitted to the bar. Johnson
and his fellow ministers, banded together as the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty,
persuaded Everett J. Waring, a recent graduate of Howard Law School, to come to Maryland.
Waring was admitted to the bar of the Baltimore Supreme Bench on October 10, 1885.20

Within a year, Waring was joined by Joseph Seldon Davis, another graduate of the
Howard Law School. Three years later, George M. Lane, another Howard graduate, was
admitted to practice before the Baltimore Supreme Bench. Harry Sythe Cummings and Charles
W.Johnson, the first black students to attend the Maryland Law School, were also admitted to the
bar in 1889.

In 1890, Warner T. McGuinn was admitted to the Maryland bar. McGuinn was a graduate
of Yale Law School. While a student there, he came to the attention of Samuel Clemens ("Mark
Twain") who helped finance his legal education. McGuinn joined Cummings in the practice of
law.21

Maryland Law School closed its doors to black students in 1890, excluding John L.
Dozier and W. Ashbie Hawkins after they had completed one year. Dozier, however, finished
his studies at Howard and was admitted to the bar in 1891 along with William H. Daniels and
Malachi Gibson.

In 1892, two more black lawyers, David Dickson and W. Ashbie Hawkins were added to
the bar of the Baltimore Supreme Bench. Dickson read law with an attorney instead of attending
law school. He spent some time as a janitor in the Pratt library and later became a weigher in the
customs house.22 Hawkins had attended Howard Law School after his expulsion from the
University of Maryland, riding the train to the District of Columbia every day to attend school
after his work as a teacher was finished. The determination which he showed in attaining his
legal education was displayed throughout his legal career. Hawkins was the leading civil rights
lawyer in the state until Thurgood Marshall began his practice here.

At the turn of the century, there was a small cadre of black attorneys in Baltimore. In
addition to those already mentioned, Cornelius C. Fitzgerald, William L. Fitzgerald, H. B. White,
B. F. Lester and Charles H. Seales and Richard King of Annapolis had been admitted to the bar.23
But these men faced a rapidly building force of segregationist sentiment. For example, in 1899,
the democratic party regained control of Baltimore city using the slogan "This is a white man's
city."

F.        Family Law

The miscegenation statutes stemming from the colonial period were repealed in 1867 as a
result of deleting them from a statutory codification following the Civil War. In 1884, however,
a new miscegenation law was enacted in response to the marriage of Frederick Douglass to a

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