This year marked the 50th anniversary of both the March on Washington and another civil rights landmark — the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to an attorney for those who cannot afford one. “It’s appropriate that they share the same anniversary, because public defenders in many ways are this generation’s civil rights warriors,” said Jon Rapping, president and founder of Gideon’s Promise, an Atlanta-based organization that supports indigent defense.