Lolis Edward Elie, a New Orleans lawyer whose work put him in the thick of the civil rights movement, with clients who included African-Americans seeking jobs and the right to eat at lunch counters, ...

Lolis Edward Elie, a lawyer and leading figure in the civil rights movement whose clients included protestors, lunch counter sit-in participants, Freedom Riders and Black Panthers, died Tuesday. He ...

Prominent New Orleans civil rights lawyer Lolis Edward Elie died Tuesday at his home in Treme. He was 87, according to his own accounts, which maintained that he was born in January 1930, though his ...

During the 50 years that Elie practiced law, he was central to Louisiana’s civil rights movement, said retired Judge Calvin Johnson, who is now City Hall’s criminal justice commissioner. “If those of ...