As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.

Here is how "Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock," Jack Butler's novel, describes our city: "Little Rock is a ...

Davis was the lawyer for Black students Charles and Floyd Moody ... Marc Veasey told the House how Davis grew up in small-town Arkansas and was accepted to the University of Arkansas law school ...

The brutal lynching of a Black ... the city attorney refused, thus ending its existence. -- Timothy G. Nutt This story is adapted by Guy Lancaster from the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, a ...

filing some of the first lawsuits seeking to integrate Arkansas schools – who moved to Texas in the early 1950s. He was among the first Black lawyers in the south to take on discrimination cases.

Mr. Davis, who grew up in Arkansas ... lawyers in the area — was the lead attorney in a lawsuit, Jackson v. Rawdon, seeking the admission of several Black students to public schools in Mansfield ...

the civil rights lawyer who fought to desegregate North Texas school districts before becoming the first Black judge in Tarrant County, died Saturday at age 100. He was born in Wilton, Arkansas ...

Arkansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would put more oversight over a group investigating state-run facilities for ...

William T. Coleman Jr. shattered barriers, from becoming the first Black Supreme Court clerk to shaping civil rights law and ...

During a search of the man’s home, authorities found notebooks with writings about his plans to “hunt” down non-white church ...

Clifford Davis, the first Black judge to be elected in Tarrant County and the civil rights lawyer who helped desegregate ... was born in Arkansas and received his law degree from Howard University ...