This 60-minute video features an interview by Dr. Travis Armstrong with Judge Calvin Williams. Dr. Armstrong interviews Montgomery County (AL) Circuit Court Judge Calvin Williams about his life growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, his distinguished military career, and his legal career at the city and county level in city and county jurisprudence. One of Judge Williams’ most notable achievements was the expungement in 2021 of the nearly 70-year criminal record of Claudette Colvin. Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated city bus. Judge Williams discusses the historical importance of Colvin’s act of civil disobedience and his role in the judicial proceeding which expunged her record.
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