Alan Page, whose second act in life vaulted him beyond even his Pro Football Hall of Fame career, still remembers a childhood moment which sharpened the “justice for all” mentality that drove him to become the first black justice to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court.
“I’ve never talked about this [memory] before, but I will, because one thing I’ve learned is, in order to solve the discrimination that we see, we have to come to grips with our own biases,” said Page, speaking Feb. 18 to high school students from Minneapolis North, Paladin Career and Technical in Blaine, and Focus Beyond in St.