Judge Hubert T. Delany was the first African American Tax Commissioner of New York and one of the first appointed African American judges of New York City in the early 20th Century. The son of former slave and prominent cleric, Bishop Henry T. Delany of the Episcopal Church, and Nanny J. Delany, a St. Augustine's College instructor.
He graduated from City College in 1923 and received his law degree from New York University Law School in 1926. He ran for Congress in Harlem, NY in 1929 and in 1935 NYC Mayor La Guardia appointed Delany to investigate the series of riots that occurred in the city. He became a Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in 1942.
Delany had a long career as an attorney, politician, and civil rights activist. Judge Delany also served as the attorney and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, famed opera star Marian Anderson, baseball color barrier breaker Jackie Robinson as well as many prominent civil rights activists, sports and entertainer figures of the day.
In Montgomery, Alabama in May 1960, in front of an all-white jury, Delany defended Martin Luther King, Jr. on perjury charges related to alleged tax evasion, obtaining an acquittal.
Dr. King wrote of the trial as a "turning point" in his life and praised Delany and his other principal lawyer, William R. Ming: "They brought to the courtroom wisdom, courage, and a highly developed art of advocacy; but most important, they brought the lawyers' indomitable determination to win. After a trial of three days, by the sheer strength of their legal arsenal, they overcame the most vicious Southern taboos festering in a virulent and inflamed atmosphere and they persuaded an all-white jury to accept the word of a Negro over that of white men."
Delany was survived by a wife, Willetta S. Delany, a daughter, Dr. Madelon Delany Stent; professor of Education at City College of New York and a son, Dr. Harry Mickey Delany; Chairman of the Department of Surgery Jacobi Medical Center as well as six grandchildren and two great-grandchilden.
[Bio added by grandson Evan T. Stent]
Find out more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Thomas_Delany
He graduated from City College in 1923 and received his law degree from New York University Law School in 1926. He ran for Congress in Harlem, NY in 1929 and in 1935 NYC Mayor La Guardia appointed Delany to investigate the series of riots that occurred in the city. He became a Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in 1942.
Delany had a long career as an attorney, politician, and civil rights activist. Judge Delany also served as the attorney and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, famed opera star Marian Anderson, baseball color barrier breaker Jackie Robinson as well as many prominent civil rights activists, sports and entertainer figures of the day.
In Montgomery, Alabama in May 1960, in front of an all-white jury, Delany defended Martin Luther King, Jr. on perjury charges related to alleged tax evasion, obtaining an acquittal.
Dr. King wrote of the trial as a "turning point" in his life and praised Delany and his other principal lawyer, William R. Ming: "They brought to the courtroom wisdom, courage, and a highly developed art of advocacy; but most important, they brought the lawyers' indomitable determination to win. After a trial of three days, by the sheer strength of their legal arsenal, they overcame the most vicious Southern taboos festering in a virulent and inflamed atmosphere and they persuaded an all-white jury to accept the word of a Negro over that of white men."
Delany was survived by a wife, Willetta S. Delany, a daughter, Dr. Madelon Delany Stent; professor of Education at City College of New York and a son, Dr. Harry Mickey Delany; Chairman of the Department of Surgery Jacobi Medical Center as well as six grandchildren and two great-grandchilden.
[Bio added by grandson Evan T. Stent]
Find out more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Thomas_Delany
Judge Hubert T. Delany was the first African American Tax Commissioner of New York and one of the first appointed African American judges of New York City in the early 20th Century. The son of former slave and prominent cleric, Bishop Henry T. Delany of the Episcopal Church, and Nanny J. Delany, a St. Augustine's College instructor.
He graduated from City College in 1923 and received his law degree from New York University Law School in 1926. He ran for Congress in Harlem, NY in 1929 and in 1935 NYC Mayor La Guardia appointed Delany to investigate the series of riots that occurred in the city. He became a Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in 1942.
Delany had a long career as an attorney, politician, and civil rights activist. Judge Delany also served as the attorney and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, famed opera star Marian Anderson, baseball color barrier breaker Jackie Robinson as well as many prominent civil rights activists, sports and entertainer figures of the day.
In Montgomery, Alabama in May 1960, in front of an all-white jury, Delany defended Martin Luther King, Jr. on perjury charges related to alleged tax evasion, obtaining an acquittal.
Dr. King wrote of the trial as a "turning point" in his life and praised Delany and his other principal lawyer, William R. Ming: "They brought to the courtroom wisdom, courage, and a highly developed art of advocacy; but most important, they brought the lawyers' indomitable determination to win. After a trial of three days, by the sheer strength of their legal arsenal, they overcame the most vicious Southern taboos festering in a virulent and inflamed atmosphere and they persuaded an all-white jury to accept the word of a Negro over that of white men."
Delany was survived by a wife, Willetta S. Delany, a daughter, Dr. Madelon Delany Stent; professor of Education at City College of New York and a son, Dr. Harry Mickey Delany; Chairman of the Department of Surgery Jacobi Medical Center as well as six grandchildren and two great-grandchilden.
[Bio added by grandson Evan T. Stent]
Find out more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Thomas_Delany
He graduated from City College in 1923 and received his law degree from New York University Law School in 1926. He ran for Congress in Harlem, NY in 1929 and in 1935 NYC Mayor La Guardia appointed Delany to investigate the series of riots that occurred in the city. He became a Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in 1942.
Delany had a long career as an attorney, politician, and civil rights activist. Judge Delany also served as the attorney and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, famed opera star Marian Anderson, baseball color barrier breaker Jackie Robinson as well as many prominent civil rights activists, sports and entertainer figures of the day.
In Montgomery, Alabama in May 1960, in front of an all-white jury, Delany defended Martin Luther King, Jr. on perjury charges related to alleged tax evasion, obtaining an acquittal.
Dr. King wrote of the trial as a "turning point" in his life and praised Delany and his other principal lawyer, William R. Ming: "They brought to the courtroom wisdom, courage, and a highly developed art of advocacy; but most important, they brought the lawyers' indomitable determination to win. After a trial of three days, by the sheer strength of their legal arsenal, they overcame the most vicious Southern taboos festering in a virulent and inflamed atmosphere and they persuaded an all-white jury to accept the word of a Negro over that of white men."
Delany was survived by a wife, Willetta S. Delany, a daughter, Dr. Madelon Delany Stent; professor of Education at City College of New York and a son, Dr. Harry Mickey Delany; Chairman of the Department of Surgery Jacobi Medical Center as well as six grandchildren and two great-grandchilden.
[Bio added by grandson Evan T. Stent]
Find out more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Thomas_Delany
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