Branch, William McKinley, 1918-
Biography:
African American clergyman, civil rights worker, and the first African American probate judge in the U.S. Branch organized the Greene County, Alabama NAACP in the early 1950s and was an early organizer of the National Democratic Party of Alabama. In 1970 he was elected to the county commission and as a probate judge in Greene County. Branch 1918-
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy, and others, greeting a small crowd of people while walking toward a building, probably First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy and others, greeting people after getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- Ralph Abernathy getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- Richard Boone standing behind a podium after speaking to an audience at First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- William M. Branch speaking to an audience in a church building, probably First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)