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Carl Maxey
Carl Maxey
Born	June 23, 1924; Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Died	July 17, 1997 (aged 73); Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Education	Gonzaga University ('51 J.D.);
Occupation(s)	trial attorney, civil rights advocate
Political party	Democratic
Children	2

Carl Maxey was an American trial lawyer and civil rights leader and former collegiate athlete. First rising to prominence as a standout boxer nicknamed "King Carl" for Gonzaga University, he went undefeated with a 32–0 record in his college career and making Gonzaga co-champions of the 1950 NCAA Boxing Championship. After graduating from the Gonzaga University School of Law, becoming the first African-American to do so, he also became the first African-American in Spokane to complete the bar examination.

Maxey put his skills to work in fighting many cases involving racial discrimination in Spokane, gaining a reputation as a civil rights leader as well as a trial lawyer, taking many cases on a pro bono basis, becoming a force in the fight for equality under the law in Spokane and Washington as a whole.^[1] In 1964, during the Freedom Summer, Carl Maxey traveled to Mississippi to help Blacks register to vote and worked and marched alongside Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King Jr.^[2] Among the trials, he is most well-known for his defense of the "Seattle Seven" in an anti-Vietnam-War protest trial.^[2]

In politics, Maxey was a onetime Senate candidate, running in the Democratic primaries to unseat Henry M. Jackson on an anti-war platform and also for vice president alongside Eugene McCarthy on an independent ticket.^[3]

At his death in 1997, Carl Maxey's obituary was headlined in The New York Times with "Type A Gandhi" and was one of the most influential figures in the Inland Northwest at the time and one of the most prominent lawyers and civil rights advocates in the country.^[2]

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Carl Maxey
Born	(1924-06-23)June 23, 1924 Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Died	July 17, 1997(1997-07-17) (aged 73) Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Education	Gonzaga University ('51 J.D.)
Occupation(s)	trial attorney, civil rights advocate
Political party	Democratic
Children	2