U. W. Clemon in front of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on the day he was sworn in as a federal judge.
He is holding the hand of his daughter, Addine Michelle, and his wife, Barbara, is standing on the right. When President Jimmy Carter appointed him in 1980, Clemon became the first Black federal judge to serve in Alabama. In 1974, Clemon and J. Richmond Pearson had been the first African Americans e...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/121752 |