Frank Minis Johnson
American judge
Died when: 80 years 266 days (968 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (October 30, 1918 – July 23, 1999) was a United States district judge and United States Circuit Judge serving 1955 to 1999 on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
He made landmark civil rights rulings that helped end segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South.In the words of journalist and historian Bill Moyers, Judge Johnson "altered forever the face of the South."
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