This collection consists of a certificate issued to Lawyer and Congressman, George Crockett Jr, on May 11, 1942. George Crockett, Jr. was born August 10, 1909, in Jacksonville, Fl. He is a graduate of Morehouse College (1931) and the University of Michigan Law School (1934). Between degrees, he joined the Marine Cooks and Steward's Union (1931) and waited on tables aboard ships on trips between the U.S. and South America. He practiced law for a short period in Florida and West Virginia before becoming a lawyer with the U.S. Dept. of Labor (1939-1943) and a hearings examiner with the Fair Employment Practices Commission (1943). At this time, he was a member of the Government Employees Union (CIO). Thereafter, he worked with the UAW as a consultant on minorities (1944), director of its Fair Employment Practices Committee (1945), and then as an administrative assistant within its secretary treasurer's office (1946). During this period he also wrote a weekly column for the Michigan Chronicle (1944-1946) and was a member of the National C.I.O. Anti-Discrimination Commission (1944-1945).

Crockett established a private practice and became one of five lawyers who represented the leadership of the Communists Party and had been charged with violating the Smith Act (1949-1950); he spent four months in jail for contempt in connection with this case. Thereafter, he became a founding partner of Goodman, Crockett, Eden and Robb, the first known interracial law partnership in the U.S. (1950-1966). Following an unsuccessful bid for Detroit city council (1965), he was elected as a judge of the Detroit Recorders Court (1966-1978). After a short stint as the acting city corporation counsel for Detroit, Crockett then served five terms as a congressman (1980-1991) representing Michigan's 13th congressional district comprising a portion of Detroit. He died in 1997 at the age of 88.