the National Bar Association Hero of the Law award. That September (2000), Hill and other NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers received the Harvard Medal of Freedom for their role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Beginning in 2002, the Virginia State Bar has awarded the Oliver White Hill Law School Pro Bono Award annually to one law student who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to public or community service. In 2003, a bronze bust of Hill was unveiled outside the Greater Richmond Convention Center. The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia also has another bust. In 2005 Hill received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP's highest honor. That October (2005), Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner dedicated the newly renovated Virginia Finance building in Virginia's Capitol Square in Hill's honor. The Oliver W. Hill Building became the first state-owned building as well as the first in Virginia's Capitol Square to be named for an African American. Posthumous honors By the time July 2008 had arrived the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial was dedicated in Capitol Square, honoring the legacy of Oliver SR, his fellow attorneys and his clients. The following year, the state's Department of Historic Resources approved four plaques that had honored Oliver SR and his legacy: that, by the Greater Richmond Convention Center marks the former location of his in law office. The memorial in Norfolk recalls his first important legal victory, Alston v. School Board of Norfolk (1940), as well as Beckett v. Norfolk School Board in 1957. The Prince Edward County marker commemorates his victory in Davis V.S School Board of Prince Edward County. The Roanoke marker commemorates Oliver SR's early years in the city and early law practice. A street in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom (a former slave trading neighborhood) named "Oliver Hill Way" is now one of the proposed boundaries of a redevelopment project. The City of Roanoke, Virginia renamed its courthouse in his honor on May 1, 2019, and previously dedicated a historical marker in front of his childhood home. According to the Roanoke Times, His childhood house at 401 Gilmer Ave. N.W. (which from 2009 until 2013 hosted a community legal clinic) is now maintained in part by the Roanoke City Public Schools and hosts the Oliver Hill Mentoring Program, a cooperative effort with the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia. References External links Howard University School of Law, Brown at 50