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Lafontant-Mankarious was a founding member of the Congress of Racial Equality and worked with the ACLU and the NAACP.

In 1961, she divorced Jones and married H. Ernest Lafontant, who died in 1976. She married Naguib Mankarious and remained married to him until her death in 1997 from breast cancer. She also continued practicing law up until that point, working as a partner for the Holleb & Coff firm.

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