Leo Branton Jr.
Leo Branton Jr. (February 17, 1922 – April 19, 2013) was an American
Northwestern University School of Law in 1948. He served in the Army during World War II. Branton represented Nat King Cole in a label dispute, and Jimi Hendrix's estate, among others. He was well known for representing Angela Davis
during her 1972 murder trial and subsequent acquittal.
Branton was born in
Tuskegee Institute.[1]
In 2011, the
William Robert Ming Advocacy Award for the spirit of financial and personal sacrifice displayed in his legal work.[2]
References
- William Yardley, "Leo Branton Jr., Activists' Lawyer, Dies at 91", New York Times, April 27, 2013, [1].
- ^ "Leo Branton, Jr". TheHistoryMakers. TheHistoryMakers. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ^ Benjamin Todd Jealous (January 2012). "Memorandum to NAACP Units and State Conferences" (PDF). NAACP. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
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