Orzell Billingsley of Birmingham, Alabama.

Billingsley, one of the first African Americans admitted to the Alabama State Bar, was a local political and civil rights leader. Among his more notable legal clients were Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Caliph Washington, who was wrongfully convicted o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Falletta, Anthony
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/90141