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Silas Robbins

1857–1916

United States

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Silas Robbins (February 14, 1857 – September 11, 1916) was the first African American admitted to practice law in the U.S. state of Nebraska in 1889, and the first Black person in Omaha, Nebraska to be admitted to the Nebraska State Bar Association.

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