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

News Date ASU’s General Counsel Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Alabama Lawyers Association   By: Kenneth Mullinax/ASU The general counsel of Alabama State University was inducted on May 21 into the prestigious Alabama Lawyers Association’s (ALA) Hall of Fame. In the first virtual ceremony ever held by the ALA in its 50 years of service, ASU’s general counsel, Kenneth L. Thomas (ASU Class of 1973), joined the ranks of the organization’s Hall of Fame inductees. Past honorees have included iconic jurists such as Fred Gray, Sr. (ASU Class of 1951), Judge U.W. Clemon, Solomon Seay,...

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 the 1910 Bowdoin Bugle, the yearbook for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Madison was one of only...