Maddox’s survivors include a son, Charles. His wife, Leola, died in 2017. NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York ...

Alton Maddox, the headline-grabbing civil rights lawyer who represented Tawana Brawley and some of the most high-profile victims in racially charged attacks in New York during the 1980s, died Sunday ...

When the history books are written about confrontational African American defense attorney Alton H. Maddox Jr., his most rabid critics will accuse him of masterminding the assailable late 1980s hoax ...

Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who gained notoriety after representing Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager who falsely accused a group of White men of a 1987 gang rape, has died. He was 77. Maddox ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York in the 1980s, has died. He was 77. Maddox died Sunday in a Bronx nursing ...

FILE: Alton Maddox Jr., center, meets with supporters in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 29, 1998, after a jury awarded Steven Pagones a total of $345,000 in a defamation suit against Maddox and two other ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr. has died. Funeral director Isaiah Owens says Maddox died Sunday at age 77 in a Bronx nursing home. Maddox was involved in several high-profile ...