Alton Maddox, lawyer in Tawana Brawley hoax case, dead at 77

Maddox’s survivors include a son, Charles. His wife, Leola, died in 2017.

NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York in the 1980s, has died. He was 77.

Maddox died Sunday in a Bronx nursing home, funeral director Isaiah Owens said.

Maddox represented

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