I forgot - civil rights lawyer - NAACP award winner.
I wouldn't read too much into that. It seems like he was a "civil rights lawyer" back in the 1960s, when being a civil rights lawyer meant something - fighting against Jim Crow laws, etc. He appears to have gone off the deep end only after that. It would be a disservice to civil rights lawyers of that era to associate them with what this a**hole is doing now (or to associate them with what "civil rights lawyers" are doing now, for that matter).