Early Life and Education
Born in poverty in Maysville, Kentucky on November 5, 1905, Ted Berry overcame great obstacles to achieve personal success and gain a national reputation as a leader in the Civil Rights movement. He graduated from Woodward High School in 1924 and served as class valedictorian, the first African American to hold that honor in Cincinnati. In his senior year, he won an essay contest with an entry submitted under the pseudonym Thomas Playfair after an all-white panel had rejected his initial entry.
Berry worked at steel mills in Newport, Kentucky to pay tuition at the University of Cincinnati and then at its law school.
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