Texas NAACP dismisses lawyer for defending Klan - Anthony Griffin relieved from post with NAACP for defending the Ku Klux Klan - Brief Article

Jet, Oct 18, 1993

Anthony Griffin, the chief lawyer for the NAACP in Texas has been relieved of his duties because he refused to drop another client: the Ku Klux Klan. Gary Bledsoe, president of the state NAACP chapter, explained, "We asked him to choose one or the other. . .I'm just sorry that he chose to represent the Klan." Griffin, who is Black, is defending the Ku Klux Klan's right to keep its membership lists private (Jet, Sept.

20).

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