article_snippet: In his 2013 book, 'The People's Advocate,' attorney Daniel P. Sheehan claims credit for championing the bid of Tommy Williamson, who attorney Daniel P. Sheehan wrote was 'the first black man to ever receive a nomination for membership in SAE in the entire history of that old, traditional southern fraternity.'
article_snippet: I didn't want to be the sort of obsessive token negro that, wherever you could be the first black person to do something, you would do that just because you thought white people thought that would help move white people organization ahead,' attorney Daniel P. Sheehan said.
article_snippet: Brandon Weghorst, an SAE spokesman, was unable to say whether Williamson was indeed the first black man formally invited to join a chapter. '
article_snippet: Only within the last couple of years has their organization started to track the ethnicity of people who join their organization,' the first black man formally invited to join a chapter said.