caption death_date death_place religion birth_place nationality ethnicity signature_alt birth_date signature image article_title name occupation
delany in 1938 december 28 , 1990 -lrb- age 89 -rrb- manhattan , new york episcopalian raleigh , north carolina american african american `` hubert t.delany '' signature may 11 , 1901 hubert delany signature v3.png file : hubertdelany1938.jpg hubert thomas delany
 hon. hubert thomas delany lawyer justice of new york city domestic relations court , civil , rights advocate assistant u.s. attorney , tax commissioner ,
hubert thomas delany

hubert thomas delany -lrb- ; may 11 , 1901 - december 28 , 1990 -rrb- was an american civil rights pioneer , a lawyer , politician , assistant u.s. attorney , the first african american tax commissioner of new york and one of the first appointed african american judges in new york city .
judge delany was on the board of directors for the national association for the advancement of colored people -lrb- naacp -rrb- , the harlem ymca and became an active leader in the harlem renaissance .
he also served as a vice president of the naacp legal defense and educational fund .
he was a graduate of city college of new york in 1923 .
he received his law degree from new york university school of law in 1926 and was a member of sigma pi phi fraternity , the first greek-letter organization to be founded by african american men .
delany had a long career serving as both a justice in the new york city domestic relations court as well as an attorney and adviser to civil rights activists dr. martin luther king jr. , us congressman adam clayton powell , jr. and poet langston hughes .
he also advised entertainment and sports luminaries including famed opera singer marian anderson , singer and actor paul robeson , cartoonist e. simms campbell , bandleader cab calloway , and major league baseball color line breaker jackie robinson .
