Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. will be buried Tuesday in his hometown of Haleyville, Ala., leaving behind a record of civil rights decisions that transformed the South. As a judge, Johnson endured social ostracism and death threats. George Wallace aroused white Alabama's in his 1962 bid for governor by attacking Johnson as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar." Before his death, however, Wallace said he was "wrong" on the issue of segregation and that Johnson was "right."
July 27, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. will be buried Tuesday in his hometown of Haleyville,Ala., leaving behind a legendary record of trail-blazing civil rightsdecisions that transformed the South.
Johnson, 80, a senior judge on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, diedFriday at home in Montgomery, Ala., of pneumonia after several years ofdeclining health.
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