Robert Lee Brokenburr (November 16, 1886 – March 24, 1974) was an American attorney, civil rights leader, and state legislator in Indiana.
Walker Manufacturing Company while carrying on his own practice litigating civil rights cases.
[2] He graduated from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1906, and received a law degree from Howard University in 1909.
In Galliard v. Grant, he challenged an Indianapolis ordinance which divided the city into zones segregated by race.
[4] In Baily vs. Washington Theatre Company, he represented a woman who was refused service at a theater based on her race.
[5] The company, which sold cosmetic and haircare products for black women, went on to be one of the most successful African-American owned businesses in the United States.