BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Birmingham barber and civil rights foot
soldier James Armstrong has died. He was 86.
Armstrong died Wednesday. The Birmingham News first reported
Armstrong's death on its Web site.
Armstrong had a long history of involvement in the civil rights
movement.
He carried the American flag at the head of the 1965
Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights march and in 1957 initiated a
class action lawsuit to integrate Birmingham schools after trying
to enroll his two sons in the then all-white Graymont Elementary
School.
He cut hair at Armstrong Barbershop in downtown Birmingham for
more than 50 years. One of his clients was civil right leader Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Armstrong was a board member and volunteer at the Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute.
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