The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, a civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP who also served as president of the N.C. Council of Churches, has been found dead, his attorney said Wednesday.
Spearman, 71, died on Tuesday, said Mark Cummings, a Greensboro attorney who said he was representing Spearman. He declined to provide additional details about the death and did not say what he was representing him for.
