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Prior to Louis Stokes’s tenure in Congress he served for a few years as a criminal defense lawyer and chairman of the Cleveland NAACP Legal Redress Committee. Some of the Supreme Court Cases he argued, the Terry “Stop and Frisk” case is thought of as probably the most twenty-five most significant cases in the court’s history. The Gentleman from Ohio chronicles this and other momentous events in the life and legacy of Ohio’s first black representative—a man who, whether in law or politics, continually fought for the principles he believed in and helped cleared the path for African Americans on the planet of mainstream American politics.