Todd was the first full time black law professor at Northwestern University where he taught from 1970 to 1974. Gorman, the first federal criminal case against a Chicago police officer ended in a hung jury in 1971. Todd organized and established the first Civil Rights Office in a local United States Attorney's Office in the United States in 1969. In this capacity, Todd made history when he developed the first criminal case against a Chicago policeman for deprivation of an individuals' civil rights in 1968. Todd continued through Southern University's School of Law graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1963.Todd served as a lawyer in the United States Army from 1964 to 1967 and joined the staff of the United States Attorney's Office in Chicago in 1967. He graduated early from Central High School in Mobile in 1955 and started that same year at Southern University at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Īlthough he considered dropping out of college after his mother died in 1958, he remained enrolled and received a B.A. The family was poor, but Thomas, a large youth with a rich voice, nevertheless became a leader in school activities. His father died shortly thereafter, so his mother, and eventually a stepfather, raised Thomas in Mobile, Alabama. Todd was born on September 24, 1938, in Demopolis, Alabama. Activist attorney widely known as "TNT" for his oratorical skills, Thomas N.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |