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Carl Maxey was an American trial lawyer and civil rights leader and former collegiate athlete. First rising to prominence as a standout boxer nicknamed "King Carl" for Gonzaga University, he went undefeated with a 32–0 record in his college career and making Gonzaga co-champions of the 1950 NCAA Boxing Championship. After graduating from the Gonzaga University School of Law, becoming the first African-American to do so, he also became the first African-American in Spokane to complete the bar examination. Maxey put his skills to work in fighting many cases involving racial discrimination in Spokane, gaining a reputation as a civil rights leader as well as a trial lawyer, taking many cases on a pro bono basis, becoming a force in the fight for equality under the law in Spokane and Washington as a whole. In 1964, during the Freedom Summer, Carl Maxey traveled to Mississippi to help Blacks register to vote and worked and marched alongside Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King Jr. Among the trials, he is most well-known for his defense of the "Seattle Seven" in an anti-Vietnam-War protest trial. In politics, Maxey was a onetime Senate candidate, running in the Democratic primaries to unseat Henry M. Jackson on an anti-war platform and also for vice president alongside Eugene McCarthy on an independent ticket. At his death in 1997, Carl Maxey's obituary was headlined in The New York Times with "Type A Gandhi" and was one of the most influential figures in the Inland Northwest at the time and one of the most prominent lawyers and civil rights advocates in the country. (en) |
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