| LC control no. | n 93011275 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Doar, John, 1921-2014 |
| Birth date | 19211203 |
| Death date | 20141111 |
| Place of birth | Minneapolis (Minn.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Civil rights |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Library of Congress, Manuscript Division for Johnson, F.M. Papers, 1955-1982 (John Doar) WWA, 1978-1979 (John Doar; lawyer, of NYC; civil rights lawyer with Justice Dept., 1960-1965; b. 1921) NYT online, viewed Nov. 12, 2014 (John Doar, born on Dec. 3, 1921; in Minneapolis; lawyer from northern Wisconsin who led the federal government's on-the-ground efforts to dismantle segregation in the South, and who later headed the team that made the case for impeaching President Richard M. Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal, died on Tuesday [Nov. 11, 2014] at his home in Manhattan. During the most volatile period of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, it was Mr. Doar, along with a federal marshal, who escorted James Meredith when he integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962. It was Mr. Doar who led the successful prosecution of the men who killed three young civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. And it was Mr. Doar who defused a dramatic standoff between bottle-throwing civil rights protesters and police officers with their guns drawn in Jackson, Miss. He was educated at the St. Paul Academy in St. Paul and at Princeton. His law degree was from the University of California, Berkeley) |
| Associated language | eng |
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