Clifford Durr
Clifford Durr | |
|---|---|
| Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission | |
| In office November 1, 1941 - June 30, 1948 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Clifford Judkins Durr March 2, 1899 Montgomery, Alabama |
| Died | May 12, 1975 (aged 76) Elmore County, Alabama |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | University of Alabama (B.A.) Oxford University (B.C.L.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Clifford Judkins Durr (March 2, 1899 – May 12, 1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras. He also was the lawyer who represented Rosa Parks in her challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance, due to the infamous segregation of passengers on buses in Montgomery. This is what launched the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott.
Durr was born into a patrician Alabama family. After studying at the University of Alabama, being president of his class, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to the United States to study law, then joined a prominent law firm in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1924. In 1926 he married Virginia Foster, whose sister, Josephine, would be the first wife of Hugo Black.