Draft:Julius L. Mitchell
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Julius Linoble Mitchell (April 17, 1867 – ?) was a lawyer in the United States. He was involved in cviil rights cases.
He was born in Moncks Corner{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BknDwAAQBAJ&dq=julius+linoble.mitchell+rhode+island&pg=PA102|title=All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968|first=William Lewis|last=Burke|date=November 17, 2017|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820350981 |via=Google Books}} in Charleston County, South Carolina.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFZ2AAAAMAAJ&dq=julius+linoble.mitchell+rhode+island&pg=PA194|title=Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent|date=November 17, 1915|via=Google Books}}
He graduated from Allen University's Law Department in 1894.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lOIjQUG4aoC&dq=julius+linoble.mitchell+rhode+island&pg=PA161|title=Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944|first=J. Clay Smith|last=Jr|date=November 17, 1999|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0812216857 |via=Google Books}} He handled election discrimination cases in South Carolina.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1InDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22julius+l.+mitchell%22+south+carolina&pg=PA129|title=All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968|first=W. Lewis|last=Burke|date=July 1, 2017|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820350998 |via=Google Books}}
He and William James Whipper represented John Brownfield, a barber in Georgetown, South Carolina who refused to pay a poll tax and wrestled a gun away from a white constable attempting to arrest him. Brownfield was found guilty of murder.{{Cite web|url=https://casetext.com/case/state-v-brownfield-2|title=State v. Brownfield, 60 S.C. 509 | Casetext Search + Citator|website=casetext.com}} Mitchell argued to overthrow the conviction for constitutional violations including an all-white jury.{{cite web|url=https://www.scbar.org/media/filer_public/d1/31/d1313e9e-08f1-4ab9-a774-6e56b0faf8dd/right_to_a_fair_trial_-_brownfield_lesson_2013.pdf|title=Right to a Fair Trial - Brownfield Lesson 20-13|website=South Carolina Bar}}
Joshua Williams Polite was the first black lawyer from Charleston after Reconstruction. Mitchell tried nine criminal casez. https://books.google.com/books?id=9BknDwAAQBAJ&dq=julius+linoble.mitchell+rhode+island&pg=PA102 All for Civil Rights: African American in South Carolina, 1868-1968
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