William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., was the first African American to clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court justice, served as s under the Ford administration. He was born on July 7, 1920, in the Germantown district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William Thaddeus and Laura Beatrice Mason Coleman. Coleman’s father was a director of the Germantown boys club for forty years, and as a result, Coleman met … Continue reading On this Day: William T. Coleman, Jr.