Curtis Realious McClinton Sr. (March 22, 1913 - June 27, 2012) was a civil rights activist and state legislator in Kansas. He served in the Kansas Senate. His son, Curtis McClinton Jr., was a star football player at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

and in the NFL. He was born in

Braggs, Oklahoma Braggs is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 270 as of the 2020 census. The town is best known as the site of Camp Gruber, a World War II military cantonment that was the home base of the 42nd Infantry Divis ...

. He served in the

Kansas Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of about 73,000 inhabitants. Members o ...

from 1960 to 1968. In 2002 he was interviewed on The HistoryMakers. He was celebrated following his death as a leading proponent of desegregation in Kansas.

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1913 births 2012 deaths People from Braggs, Oklahoma Kansas state senators 20th-century members of the Kansas Legislature {{Kansas-politician-stub