Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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When Judge Isaac Franklin Bradley Sr. was born in Saline County, Missouri, he was considered property. By the time he died, his name had been etched next to the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois as a civil rights leader, lawyer, judge and entrepreneur.

His granddaughter, Frances Bradley Robinson, has spent years trying to piece together everything that happened in between.

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