Civil rights lawyer Charles Douglas Langford, represented Rosa Parks, was born in 1922

December 9

On December 9, 1922, Charles Douglas Langford was born. 

Charles Langford famously represented Rosa Parks in her historic Montgomery bus segregation case. Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. 

Charles Douglas Langford died in 2007. He was 84 years old.

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Sources

The New York Times. (2007, February 20). Charles Langford, 84, lawyer who represented Rosa Parks, dies. The New York Times. Retrieved December 1, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/obituaries/20langford.html