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Born in a farmhouse in rural Virginia with no electricity or running water, James H. Coleman Jr. recalled traveling to New Jersey one summer in the back of a Greyhound bus with shoebox lunch on his lap, seeking a job to help pay for college. When he returned back home by train, he had to move to a seat in a railway car for the “colored,” after a stop in Washington, D.C. More than 40 years later, he would be sworn in as the first Black justice to New Jersey’s top court. Coleman, who was nominated by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman in 1994 to the state Supreme Court, died Friday, court officials sai…

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