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Richard Taylor Rives (January 15 1895–October 27 1982) was an American lawyer and judge. A native of Alabama he was the sole Democrat among the Fifth Circuit Four four judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the 1950s and 1960s that issued a series of decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African-Americans.

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