Pictured are (front, l-r) Godfrey J. Dillard, Dean Phyllis L. Crocker, and Hon. Terrance A. Keith `84; (middle) Taylor Seals `21, BLSA executive board members Jailah Emerson `20, Cheryl Mitchell `20, Deja Davis `21, and Nadine Dabaja `21; (back) Gail Carr Williams, and Tarrant family members Laurence Johnson (grandson), Laurence Johnson II (great grandson), Dionna Johnson (great-great granddaughter), Ladeveris Hathorne (great granddaughter), Ruth Johnson (granddaughter-in-law), and Larry White (Hathorne’s partner).
Photo by Dave Frechette
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law hosted Bending the Arc Toward Justice on Jan. 30, an event to kickoff Black History Month that included a portrait unveiling of Henry H. Tarrant ’22, the first known African American graduate of Detroit Mercy Law; remarks by Godfrey J. Dillard, a civil rights trailblazer and one of the lawyers who represented the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) in their lawsuit against the university in the early 1980s; the launch of the new Henry H. Tarrant Award for Black Student Excellence; and an introduction of the Association of Black Law Alumni (ABLA), led by Judge Terrance A. Keith ’84, and ABLA’s new scholarship for African American students, the David Williams II and Gail Carr Williams Endowed Scholarship Fund.
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