Clifford Durr
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Clifford Durr (1899 – 1975) was a Birmingham, Alabama lawyer, known for defending political activists, who represented Rosa Parks in Federal court after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He argued that the Montgomery ordinance that segregated passengers on city buses was unconstitutional.
Durr, born to a wealthy Alabama family, studied at the University of Alabama and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. In 1924, after completing his legal studies, he joined a law firm in Birmingham. Two years later, he married Virginia Foster.
[edit] Further reading
- The Conscience of a Lawyer: Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties, 1899-1975, by John Salmond University of Alabama Press 1990 ISBN 0-8173-0453-3
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, by Studs Terkel Pantheon 1970 ISBN 0-394-42774-2
- Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr by Hollinger F. Barnard and Studs Terkel by Virginia Durr, University of Alabama Press, 1985 ISBN 0-8173-0517-3
- Parting The Waters; America In The King Years 1954-63, by Taylor Branch, ISBN 0-671-46097-8
[edit] External links
- Clifford Durr capsule biography - National Lawyers Guild, Chicago
- They Stood Up (Rosa Parks and Clifford Durr and his wife Virginia) Jewish Currents May 2006
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