Helen Crump is the mother of Attorney Benjamin Crump.
Helen and Ben’s father whose name is not documented reportedly separated.
She went on to work as a hotel maid and in a local Converse shoe factory to cater for Benjamin and his two brothers.
Helen later married her second husband – who would become Crump’s stepfather and also a key influence. The marriage made Crump the oldest of nine children – including six step and half-siblings.
The long-term resident of Lumberton, North Carolina, Helen Crump, 76, currently lives in a modest detached house in a tree-lined street near her son Benjamin Crump in a Tallahassee neighborhood.
Helen’s son Benjamin Lloyd Crump is an American attorney with expertise in civil rights and personal injury cases.
As of 2020, Crump has been actively involved in representing the families of George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.
Benjamin Crump has won over 200 cases relating to police brutality, with his firm earning a third of each settlement.