Education
Gravel graduated in 1935 from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. From 1937 to 1939, he attended law school at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., but he once explained that he just could not stick to the books. At a time when a legal degree was not required to become a lawyer, Gravel "read for the law" and passed the bar exam in 1940.
Gravel introduced Louis Berry, the first African American lawyer to have been admitted to the Alexandria Bar Association. Berry later said that no other white attorney lawyer in Alexandria would introduce him.
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