U. W. Clemon speaking to reporters in front of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on the day he was sworn in as a federal judge.

U. W. Clemon speaking to reporters in front of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on the day he was sworn in as a federal judge.

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 elected to the Alabama Senate since Reconstruction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bruchac, Edouard
Format:	Electronic
Published:	Alabama Department of Archives and History
Subjects:	Photographs
Online Access:	http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/122094

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