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Yesterday’s service for legendary civil rts atty #JohnWalker was awesome. 
Read our tribute to John Walker, who was one @NAACP_LDF ‘s first interns, a cooperating atty for decades and a board member. It includes wonderful reflections on the life and work of this trailblazing lawyer. naacpldf.org/press-release/…
“He made the Black lawyer a hero in Arkansas,” said Richard Mays, former law partner with #JohnWaker, at yesterday’s funeral in Little Rock, Ark. I often say that those early civil rights lawyers created the image of the lawyer as someone both heroic and cool in our community.
