Attorney Roland L. Coleman Jr., who became only the second Black person ever to lead the Los Angeles County Bar Association, has died. He was 74 years old.
Attorney Roland Lee Coleman Jr., the second Black person to lead the Los Angeles County Bar Assn., has died. He was 74. Coleman also served as president of the John M. Langston Bar Assn. of Los Angeles, founded in the 1920s to serve and support Black lawyers excluded from other bar associations. Coleman once recounted being told that a Black attorney couldn’t win cases in Glendale or Fullerton. In the face of racism, 'I really believed I had to be better than anybody else,' he said.
, Coleman started a hall of fame to honor people in the legal profession who 'persevered, sacrificed and — in spite of those obstacles and those hardships — succeeded,' said retired judge Allen Webster, another former president of the association. After the 1991 killing of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl who was shot by a Korean-born shopkeeper, the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. was divided on a recall campaign against Judge Joyce A.
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