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Johnnie Cochran  

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  • Johnnie Cochran was an African American lawyer and advocate of minority rights and equality of justice for everyone. He played an instrumental role in bringing attention to race and injustice in the criminal justice system in California as well as elsewhere in the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Cochran, Johnnie (1937–2005)]

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