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A.T. Walden (April 12, 1885 - July 2, 1965)〔(Louis Williams, "A.T. Walden (1885-1965)" ), ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia'' (Jan. 14, 2005)〕 was an African-American lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia who worked on many civil rights cases, campaigns for voter registration by African Americans, and building collaboration with the white power structure. In 1964 he was appointed by the mayor of Atlanta as a municipal judge, the first black judge to be appointed in the state of Georgia since Reconstruction.〔 Undeterred by the segregated law school in Georgia, Walden earned his law degree from the University of Michigan and returned to Georgia in 1911 to practice, one of the few black lawyers in the state through the 1940s and 1950s. He played a critical role in achieving equal pay for black schoolteachers in Atlanta in 1943, filing a suit in federal court. In 1952 he represented Horace Ward in the first legal challenge to seek admission by a black student to the all-white University of Georgia Law School. Walden became known as a southern civil rights leader, in some cases serving as a local lawyer for the NAACP in cases in which it had national leadership. From 1946 he was active in leading efforts to get blacks registered to vote in the city of Atlanta and contributed to numerous political and civic organizations. A major power broker in the city, he worked effectively with businessmen and political leaders. ==Early life== Austin Thomas Walden was born in Fort Valley, Georgia on April 12, 1885. His parents, Jennie Tomlin and Jeff Walden, were children when freed from slavery after the American Civil War.〔Rayford Whittingham Logan, ''Dictionary of American Negro Biography'', p. 620 (W W Norton & Co Inc; 1st edition, 1983)〕 In 1907 Walden graduated from Atlanta University, a historically black college. Because of segregation, Walden used a Georgia "out of state scholarship" and went to Michigan. He earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1911. (This practice of the state's offering scholarships because it refused to admit black residents to its segregated law schools was ruled unconstitutional in 1938 in the ''Gaines'' case.)〔( FSP Research: Documentary Films, "Foot Soldier for Equal Justice" ), ''The Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies'', University of Georgia, 2006, accessed 9 March 2015〕 For a short time Walden practiced law in Macon, Georgia before he joined the US Army in 1917 with the United States entry into the Great War. Walden was commissioned as a captain and served as an assistant judge advocate. He received an honorable discharge in 1919, at which time he settled in Atlanta and began his own law practice. In May 1918 Walden had married Mary Ellen Denner, a public school teacher from Baltimore. They had two daughters, Jenelsie and Austella. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A.T. Walden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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