Born in 1949, Thomas G. Sampson grew up in Durham, North Carolina, as the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow gained steam. His father, Daniel G. Sampson, law dean at North Carolina Central University, worked most weekends at the only African-American law firm in town, writing briefs and motions in civil rights cases. The movement and the lawyers who helped drive it became a regular topic at the Sampson dinner table.
Thomas Sampson followed his father to Morehouse College and was influenced by its president, Benjamin E. Mays. A senior when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Sampson listened to Mays eulogize his protégé. The experience cemented Sampson’s desire to do something worthwhile—as a lawyer.
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