Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children\'s Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other "colored" orphan.
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Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer at Gonzaga University, and then as eastern Washington\'s first prominent black lawyer and a renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog.
Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children\'s Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other "colored" orphan