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Thaddeus Douglas Williams was admitted to practice law by the state supreme court on July 3, 1950.  He attended Tuskegee Institute and received his B.S. degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.  He graduated as valedictorian of his class at Lincoln Law College in 1950. He was on the board of the Little Rock NAACP chapter and, in 1961, represented Freedom Riders in Arkansas. Court records note that he died on October 27, 1967. Nothing more is known about him.

Sources: AR Supreme Court Admission Records; John A. Kirk, Redefining the Color Line, Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970 at 91, 147 (2002); Ms. Wilson-Coleman (niece), e-mail dated 10/11/2010;



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