Three attorneys with Selma ties recognized by national legal organization

Faya Rose Touré (left), Henry Sanders (top right), and Martha Morgan (bottom right). Images from the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation and from Wikipedia. 

Special to the Selma Sun

The National Center for Law and Economic Justice recognized three attorneys with ties to Selma for being trailblazers for Black communities in Alabama.

Martha Morgan, Henry Sanders and Faya Rose Touré received Social Justice Advocacy awards from the New York-based organization at a virtual benefit and awards ceremony on Dec. 8.

Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, Martha Morgan has taught and researched constitutional law, civil rights legislation and women’s international human rights, according to a news release from the NCLEJ. In Alabama, Morgan volunteered as an attorney to challenge the inadequacy and inequity of Alabama’s public school system and served as an attorney for plaintiff schoolchildren in the desegregation case of Lee v. Macon County (Pickens County).

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