Education
Raiford graduated from Greensboro, North Carolina's James B. Dudley High School at age 16 and was admitted to Washington, D.C.'s Howard University. Raiford later attended Columbia University in New York, New York, from where he received a Doctor of Laws degree.
Raiford was a member of the New York State Bar, the Federal Courts Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar.
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