Gilbert Thomas Stephenson

Born in 1884 and deceased in 1972, Gilbert Thomas Stephenson was an American author and lawyer from North Carolina. Public-domain library records and author listings identify him as the writer of Race Distinctions in American Law (1910), and later catalog records connect him with legal texts on estates and trusts.

Stephenson's best-known book, Race Distinctions in American Law, examined how American laws treated people differently by race in the early twentieth century. That makes him a notable figure for readers interested in legal history, civil rights, and the way law both reflected and reinforced social inequality.

His surviving bibliography suggests a long professional life that joined scholarship with practical law. For audiobook listeners, he is most interesting as a writer who tackled difficult public questions in plain legal terms and left behind work that still helps document the legal thinking of his era.