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 ...

Alton H. Maddox Jr., unrepentant to the end for his role in the 1980s Tawana Brawley kidnapping and rape hoax that inflamed racial hostilities in New York and beyond, a fraud that he helped perpetrate ...

He was general counsel of Mr. Sharpton’s civil rights group, the National Action Network, and defended him in a defamation suit arising from the Tawana Brawley case. By Sam Roberts The case inflamed ...

Tawana Brawley is right up there with Boss Tweed, Bernie Madoff, and Lance Armstrong in the public Hall of Shame where buggers belong. Sweet justice finally caught up last week with the notorious ...

Tawana Brawley, who in 1987 accused several white men of abducting and raping her in a case that stoked racial tensions in New York and helped propel Al Sharpton into the national spotlight, has made ...

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In November 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley claimed to have been abducted by a group of white men who raped her for a couple of days, smeared dog dung on her body and scrawled ...

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 ...

Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who gained notoriety after representing Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager who falsely accused a group of White men of a 1987 gang rape, has died. He was 77. Maddox ...