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A. Dwight Pettit
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A. Dwight Pettit
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Dwight Pettit, Esq., has had a distinguished career as an attorney, radio host and political actor. He’s worked as a trial attorney for the Small Business Administration under President Richard Nixon, a lecturer at Federal City College and as a private attorney since 1973. He helped the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson and worked as a radio host in Harford County.
The standout moment of Pettit’s career was his first private case, George D. Pettit v. The United States, when he was 27. Before a panel of federal judges, he argued his father’s employment discrimination case that helped set the standard for back pay awards in discrimination cases.
“That was such an emotional moment in my life, for me to present on a national stage what my mother and father had been through and sacrificed as black Americans, all because they had sought an equal education for their son — me,” he says.
Pettit has donated and contributed to the NAACP, The Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, his alma mater of Howard University and others to keep up the battle for justice and human rights.
“What I enjoy most about the state is the diversity of its people and its historical significance. Maryland, in my opinion, is the birthplace and heart of the civil rights movement, from Alex Haley’s “Roots” to Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, the Mitchell Family and many others playing a major part in the struggle for freedom of African Americans.”
