The Associated Press

Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (9:18 a.m.)

A civil rights-era lawyer from Alabama who represented Julian Bond and Muhammad Ali and argued for the "one man, one vote" principle has died at age 78.

Family members said Charles "Chuck" Morgan Jr. died Thursday at his home in Destin, Fla. of complications from Alzheimer's disease.

The Birmingham native fought that city's segregationist leaders in the early 1960s. He later was a prominent attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union at its offices in Atlanta and Washington.

In an Alabama reapportionment case known as Reynolds vs. Sims, he won a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that required voting districts to be equal in population. The case was one of a handful that made the "one man, one vote" principle part of federal law.