Charles Langford.

• Position: People & Politics - Brief article

Charles Langford, a five-term senator from Alabama and a civil rights lawyer whose most famous client was Rosa Parks, died in February. He was 84. Langford, who began his legislative career in the Alabama House of Representatives, retired from the Senate in 2002. A life-long civil rights leader, Langford also represented Adam Carr Jr., whose 1964 lawsuit resulted in the desegregation of the Montgomery public schools. In 1993, when...