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It’s no surprise that the fight has resonated with so many people.

Alabama State Bar honors civil rights hero as his family plans to challenge disbarment

In 1902, a janitor and longtime political activist took Alabama to the U.S. Supreme Court over voting rights. The court’s decision poisoned American law.

12:12 pm UTC Mar. 2, 2021 Arthur Madison didn’t sound like a man who had lost his law license. “We have won a great victory,” he told a crowd gathered outside a Montgomery courthouse on April 19, 1944, speaking “briefly, dramatically and heroically,” in the words of one newspaper.  Show caption Hide caption Arthur Madison as seen in the 1910 Bowdoin Bugle, the yearbook for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Madison was one of only three Black students... Arthur Madison as seen in t...