Thursday, February 9, 2012
Black History Month: Oscar W. Baker was Bay County's first black attorney
It was 110 years ago this spring, when a popular former Bay County prosecutor who had opened his own law firm took in an associate, a home town young man recently graduated from the University of Michigan Law School — and with that partnership came history. The young attorney was Oscar W. Baker, born and raised in Bay City, who was the first black attorney in Bay County. As the Bay City NAACP chapter gears up to mark Black History Month on Saturday with a free concert at the State Theatre, Baker's story is an important part of that history.
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