Every parking space along Missouri Avenue, East Annie Street and Tucker Street was full as mourners prepared to attend the funeral of civil rights legend Judge L. Clifford Davis on Tuesday morning.
Students playing on recess across the street at Van Zandt-Guinn Elementary School peeked through the school’s black gates, curious to see the growing crowd in Saint Andrews United Methodist Church, at 522 Missouri Ave. in Fort Worth.
Judge Davis, the first Black district court judge to be elected in Tarrant County and a civil rights lawyer who helped desegregate North Texas schools , died at the age of 100 on Saturday, Feb. 15…