TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 10, 2021

The U.S. Senate passed a bill this week to remove the name of former congressman and KKK member Clifford Davis from a federal building in Memphis, Action News 5 reports. The bill now goes to the president for his signature. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, who sponsored the bill in the House, said the move is a “satisfying legislative accomplishment” and something he has worked on since first joining Congress. The building is currently named for Davis and the late Judge Odell Horton — the first Black federal judge appointed since reconstruction. Horton also was the president of LeMoyne-Owen College, served as an assistant U.S. attorney, and was the first Black member of Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb’s administration.