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March 23, 2012

Civil Rights Attorney John Payton Dead at 65 
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The civil rights attorney John Payton has died at the age of 65. The
president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, the National Law Journal recently named Payton one of
the most influential civil rights attorneys of the past decade.



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