IN MEMORIAM: W. J. Michael Cody: ‘We didn’t think there would be any history books about this’

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, Sept. 15, The Tri-State Defender learned of the death of W. J. Michael Cody, an attorney in the 1960s and a key ally of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1968 Sanitation Strike. He also served as Tennessee’s Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. His […]