Civil rights attorney sued Chicago for discriminating against African-American firefighter applicants
Clyde E. Murphy, a crusading civil rights attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court [2] case that found Chicago [3] discriminated against African-American firefighter applicants, died Tuesday, Aug. 17, his family said.
Mr. Murphy, 62, died at Illinois Masonic Medical Center after a pulmonary embolism, his family said.
In his 35-year legal career, first with the NAACP [4] Legal Defense and Educational Fund and more recently as executive director of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mr. Murphy handled employment discrimination, affirmative-action, police misconduct and housing bias cases.
His pivotal achievement came this year when the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal judge's ruling that the city of Chicago discriminated against a group of more than 6,000 African-American applicants who took the 1995 firefighter entrance exam.
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