News and Views: Sixty Years After Admitting its First Black Member, the American Bar Association Elects an African-American President From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: April 30, 2002 | Copyright CH II Publishers, Inc. Apr 30, 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

A decade ago in the American Lawyer reporter Monica Bay wrote as follows: "The first black president of the American Bar Association probably won't take the podium until the next century. But handicappers assessing the presidential future would put top odds on Michigan's Dennis Archer. Archer could probably command a coronation tomorrow just by announcing his interest. But Dennis Archer's immediate hope is to be elected mayor of Detroit and to serve two terms. So it could be the next millenni...

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