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Johnnie A. Jones Sr., pioneering civil rights lawyer, dies at 102

A veteran of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, he waited nearly eight decades before receiving the Purple Heart

                                                                                 ---Headline for his obituary published in the Washington Post on April 25, 2022

Johnnie A. Jones Sr. Dies at 102; a Civil Rights Lawyer Early On

In 1953, he represented defendants in the Baton Rouge bus boycott, a model for later activism, after returning from World War II as a wounded veteran of D-Day.

                                                                                ---Headline for his obituary published in the New York Times on May 6, 2022