Lucien Wilbanks (born 1923) was a Mississippi civil rights lawyer and longtime activist.
Biography[]
Lucien Wilbanks was born in Canton, Mississippi in 1923, and he became known as a great civil rights lawyer during the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Wilbanks took part in civil rights demonstrations as an activist, and he also represented civil rights activists in court cases regarding their civil disobedience methods. Wilbanks' greatness was brought to an end due to his alcoholism, and he was later disbarred. However, he mentored Jake Brigance, who took over his old law firm and successfully defended the vigilante Carl Lee Hailey in 1984 with Wilbanks' help.