J. L. Chestnut Jr. (December 16, 1930 – September 30, 2008) was an author, attorney, and a figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He was the first African-American...

Led by the Boynton family (Amelia, Sam, and son Bruce), Rev. L. L. Anderson, J. L. Chestnut, and Marie Foster, the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) tried...

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America. As is true of all...

married a white woman. Both McMillian and the attorney he had in 1987, J. L. Chestnut, "contended that Mr. McMillian's relationships alone had made him a...

Her mother finally convinced her father to let her go to the school. Judge J. Skelly Wright's court order for the first day of integrated schools in New...

Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Chestnut...

Testament The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 1894 Leo Tolstoy book Cross, F.L., ed. (2005), "Sermon on the Mount", The Oxford dictionary of The Christian...

herself to civil rights and educational organizations. She co-founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for college-bound high school seniors, to which...

worked in law firms in Greene County and Selma, where he worked with J. L. Chestnut Jr. In 1978, Figures ran for the Alabama Senate in the 33rd district...

white colleagues were addressed formally as "Mister"; black lawyer J. L. Chestnut later said that "Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge that...