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August 31, 1992

Charles Weltner

He was a Georgia congressman who courageously spoke out for racial equality at a time when few White leaders did. Charles Weltner was born in 1927 in Atlanta and graduated from Columbia School of Law before a stint in the U.S. Army. As an Atlanta lawyer, he spoke out against racial violence in the wake […]

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Weltner was one of only seven Southerners in the U.S. House to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.