Charles Douglas Langford (December 9, 1922 – February 11, 2007) was an Alabama state senator who represented Rosa Parks in the famous civil rights case of the 1960s.

[citation needed] Langford completed two years at Tuskegee Institute before being drafted in the US Army during World War II, where he served overseas as a truck driver in the European Theater Operation.

[citation needed] Langford was also a lawyer who represented civil rights activist Rosa Parks subsequent to her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

In 1993, representing a group of black legislators, Langford helped end the flying of a Confederate battle flag from the dome of the State Capitol in Montgomery.

[1] In 1964 he represented Arlam Carr in a lawsuit against Montgomery's Board of Education that led to the desegregation of the city's public schools.