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BLSA Honors African American Alumnus
03/09/2004
Congressional Representative Julia Carson and her predecessor, former Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Jr., attended the Black Law Student Association's (BLSA) event to honor Henry J. Richardson, Jr. (1902-1983), Class of 1928. During the ceremony on February 27, 2004, a portrait of the alumnus was displayed, a copy of which will be given to the law school. Richardson was a lawyer and leader in the civil rights movement in Indiana. He served in many prominent positions including State Representative and Marion County Judge. He actively fought for school and housing desegregation, and was a moving force in organizing the Urban League of Indianapolis. BLSA also honored Richardson by naming a special award after him, and BLSA President Emile Smith presented it for the first time to Dennis Bland, Class of 1992.
Richardson’s two sons, Henry J. Richardson III, a professor of International Human Rights Law at Temple University, and Rodney C. Richardson, a partner in the Indianapolis firm of Richardson & Richardson, spoke in tribute to their late father and his many achievements. A crowd of current students, faculty, alumni and community leaders, including Joe Slash, President of the Indianapolis Urban League, were on hand to pay tribute to Richardson and Bland. (Photo: Prof. George E. Edwards and Henry J. Richardson, III)
