阿拉巴马州律师J.梅森戴维斯, 一位民权领袖, 在90岁时去世. Alabama attorney J. Mason Davis, a civil rights leader, died at age 90.

美国阿拉巴马州民权律师梅森·戴维斯在90岁时去世. J. Mason Davis, a pioneering Alabama civil rights attorney, has died at age 90. 戴维斯以代表学生在1961年亨茨维尔午餐柜台的抗议活动而闻名,于1984年成为伯明翰律师协会第一位黑人主席. Known for representing students in the 1961 Huntsville lunch counter sit-ins, Davis became the first Black president of the Birmingham Bar Association in 1984. 他还在阿拉巴马大学教授法律25年. He also taught law at the University of Alabama for 25 years.