Arkansas lawmaker’s body to lie in state at Capitol

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FILE - In this March 25, 2015 file photo, Rep. John Walker, D-Little Rock, speaks at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Walker, an Arkansas lawmaker and civil rights attorney who represented black students in a long-running court fight over the desegregation of Little Rock area schools, died Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. He was 82. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston File)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The body of lawmaker and civil rights attorney John Walker will lie in state at Arkansas’ capitol as part of his funeral arrangements this week.

Secretary of State John Thurston announced that Walker’s body will lie in state at the Capitol on Thursday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the second-floor rotunda. Walker, 82, died at his Little Rock home on Monday.

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Funeral for Walker is scheduled for St. Mark Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, at 11 a.m. Friday.

Walker served in the state House since 2011 and was involved in some of the state’s highest-profile discrimination and civil rights cases. He represented black students in a long-running desegregation case involving Little Rock-area schools.

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