Giving Voice to the Black Experience
This file appears in: Richard D. (R.D.) Evans
Prominently featured in the Texas-based magazine, The Negro American, Evans received recognition as “representing some of the leading business and professional men and women of our group who have manifested the utmost confidence and co-operation in our effort to establish a high-class Negro magazine…” While some of his legal and political work occurred on the national level, Evans’ primary involvement remained in Texas.
This file appears in: Richard D. (R.D.) Evans
Richard D. (R.D.) Evans
Long before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, attorney Richard D. (R.D.) Evans waged the fight for civil rights from his Waco law office. As Waco’s first African American attorney, he became one of the most…