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Podcast: Albany Law School Podcast
Episode: An Oral History with Peter Pryor '54
Description: In this very special podcast, and as part of Black History Month, we listen in on an oral history of the life of Peter Pryor '54.
Pryor was a World War II veteran and the first African-American to graduate from Albany Law School since the Reconstruction era.Â
He went on to a celebrated career as a civil rights attorney and in public service, working in several capacities under New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. A prominent civic affairs leader, Pryor founded the Albany Urban League and served as president and general counsel of the Albany chapter o...