Franklin Williams

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Person.png Franklin Williams  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer, civil rights leader)
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BornOctober 22, 1917
Flushing, Queens, New York, USA
DiedMay 20, 1990 (Age 72)
Manhattan, New York, USA
NationalityUS
Alma materLincoln University (Pennsylvania), Fordham University
US lawyer

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In office
January 17, 1966 - May 3, 1968

Franklin Hall Williams was a lawyer and civil rights leader in the United States. As an assistant to Thurgood Marshall he represented the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before courts in criminal cases throughout the South. In 1950 he was appointed director of the NAACP's western region where for 9 years he directed drives involving open housing, school desegregation and civil rights.

 

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Bilderberg/197927 April 197929 April 1979Austria
Baden
Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf
27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
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