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Arthur Madison didn’t sound like a man who had lost his law license.
“We have won a great victory,” he told a crowd gathered outside a Montgomery courthouse on April 19, 1944, speaking “briefly, dramatically and heroically,” in the words of one newspaper.
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Arthur Madison as seen in the 1910 Bowdoin Bugle, the yearbook for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Madison was one of only three Black students.
Arthur Madison as seen in the 1910 Bowdoin Bugle, the yearbook for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Madison was one of only three Black students at Bowdoin at the time, and the only one in his class from the deep South.Bowdoin Bugle via ancestry.com