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3 unusual facts about Chevene Bowers King


Chevene Bowers King

Following graduation from a segregated high school in Albany, he served in the United States Navy.

It is the first Federal Courthouse in the former Jim Crow South to be named for a black man and he is the fourth to receive this honor within the entire United States, the other three being the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes.

Shooting of Hosie Miller

Civil rights attorney C.B. King represented the Miller family in a civil suit against Hall seeking monetary damages for lost income, medical, and funeral costs.



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