Rosetta C. Baldwin Museum                             1408 R. C. Baldwin Ave.     High Point, NC 27260          (336) 253-1797                      hpafmuseum@yahoo.com

Museum Hours:                 Tuesdays and Thursdays  10:00 am- 4:00 pm                 or by appointment   

FREE ADMISSION       

[ Rosetta C. Baldwin ] [ Robert J.Brown ] [ Samuel Burford ] [ Sammie Chess ] [ John Coltrane ] [ Willis Hinton ] [ Nannie Kilby ]

JUDGE AND ATTORNEY

Sammie Chess moved to High Point in the 1940s and graduated from William Penn High School in 1952.  He became North Carolina's first African American Superior Court Judge appointed in the South in the twentieth century. He served on the bench from 1971 to 1975.  This was an enormous achievement at a time when school integration was just becoming a reality. Prior to this, Chess had represented a number of African Americans in Civil Rights cases.  He was a board member of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges in 2002. Chess is presently practicing law as Judge-Guardian-Ad-Litem in a child advocacy court.