Robert Emmitt Lillard
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Robert Emmitt Lillard was a fireman at the city’s first African American fire station, Engine Co. 11, until 1950, when he began practicing law full-time. In 1951, Lillard and Z. A. Looby became the first African American City Council members elected since 1911. Lillard helped desegregate the Parthenon, worked to pass anti-discrimination laws, defended sit-in protesters, and was the first African American First Circuit Court judge.
He lived and worked here from 1936 to 1972.
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