Stanley Tolliver
| Stanley Tolliver | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Stanley Eugene Tolliver, Sr. October 29, 1925 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | January 3, 2011 (aged 85) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education |
B.A. of Laws (LL.D), John Marshall School of Law, 1951 Legum Doctor (LL.D), 1968 Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, 1969 |
| Occupation | Attorney, School administrator, Civil rights activist, radio personality |
| Years active | 1953-2011, his death |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Olivia Greenwood, 1949-2001 (her death) |
| Children | 3 |
Stanley Eugene Tolliver, Sr. (October 29, 1925 – January 3, 2011) was an African American attorney, school board president, civil rights activist, and radio talk show host.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Tolliver graduated from East Technical High School in 1944 where he won the state championship in the 440-yard dash and the Ohio State Vocal Contest. His early hobbies were playing the violin and heavyweight boxing. After graduation, he went on to earn his Bachelor of Laws degree at John Marshall School of Law in 1951. During his time there, he majored in opera, ran on a relay team with Olympic gold medalist Harrison Dillard and was the founding president of a pioneering interracial fraternity that merged into Pi Lambda Phi. Tolliver went on to pass his bar exam in 1953 and to earn a Legum Doctor degree in 1968 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1969. In the interim Tolliver was drafted into the U.S. Army, served in the Counterintelligence Corps from 1951 to 1953, and served as legal counsel for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1968, he represented Fred Ahmed Evans, who was convicted of murder in a Glenville Shootout with police. During the case, Ahmed Evans' brother William "Bootsie" was shot to death in the doorway of Tolliver's Quincy Avenue office. Police did not charge the shooter and said he was thwarting a robbery. Tolliver occasionally had a contentious relationship with law departments and often accused police of misconduct and prosecutors of selectively pursuing convictions. He also believed that police who killed someone should undergo alcohol tests as promptly as possible - as civilian suspects are required to. In 1968, shotgun blasts from a drive-by shooting barely missed family members in the living room of his house.
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