Hubert Thomas Delany, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hubert Thomas Delany

American politician

Date of Birth: 11-May-1901

Place of Birth: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 28-Dec-1990

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hubert Thomas Delany (; May 11, 1901 - December 28, 1990) was an American civil rights pioneer, a lawyer, politician, Assistant U.S.
Attorney, the first African American Tax Commissioner of New York and one of the first appointed African American judges in New York City.
Judge Delany was on the board of Directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Harlem YMCA and became an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance.
He also served as a Vice President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.He was a graduate of City College of New York in 1923.
He received his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1926 and was a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the first Greek-letter organization to be founded by African American men.
Delany had a long career serving as both a justice in the New York City Domestic Relations Court as well as an attorney and adviser to civil rights activists Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
and poet Langston Hughes.
He also advised entertainment and sports luminaries including famed opera singer Marian Anderson, singer and actor Paul Robeson, cartoonist E.
Simms Campbell, bandleader Cab Calloway, and Major League Baseball color line breaker Jackie Robinson.