Prominent Defense Attorney, Alton H. Maddox Jr., Passes Away at 77
Known as the “attorney-at-war," Maddox was unwavering in his commitment to fight for the freedom and rights of Black people.
Source: ebony.com
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Known as the “attorney-at-war," Maddox was unwavering in his commitment to fight for the freedom and rights of Black people.
Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York in the 1980s, has died.
Alton Maddox, Jr. had been staying in the Bronx for over a year, and died in a nursing home on Saturday night/Sunday morning April 23, 2023.
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The case inflamed racial tensions, with Mr. Maddox later calling New York “the Mississippi of the ’90s.” After the fraud was revealed, he was unrepentant.