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Avon Williams
American politician
Avon N. Williams, Jr. (December 22, 1921 – August 29, 1994) was a Tennessee State Senator from 1972 to 1992.
Biography
Avon Nyanza Williams, Jr. was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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He was a 1940 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, an historically black university located in Charlotte, North Carolina. He subsequently studied law at the Boston University School of Law and was admitted to the Tennessee and Massachusettsbars in 1948.
He practiced law in Knoxville from 1949 to 1953, then he moved to Nashville. In 1956, he married Joan Bontemps, the daughter of Fisk University Librarian and author, Arna Bontemps[1] The couple had two children, Avon Williams III and Wendy Janette Williams.[2]
Williams’ first cousin, Thurgood Marshall, was the chief lawyer for the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the NAACP.
In Nashville, Williams was an active member of the NAACP, long serving on its executive board, and active