Nathaniel Sextus Colley, was the first African American attorney in Sacramento. He graduated from Tuskegee Institute in 1941, served in the United States Army as a captain, attended Yale Law School in 1946 and graduated in 1948 with honors. He moved to Sacramento in 1948 and became a trial lawyer and chaired the legal committee of the NAACP. Colley’s work as a civil rights attorney established the nation’s fair housing laws as they are known today. The distinguished attorney was known as “Mr. Civil Rights of California.”
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