| LC control no. | no 95004586 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Days, Drew S., III, 1941-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Days, Drew S. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Chicago (Ill.) Honduras Washington (D.C.) |
| Located | Tampa (Fla.) New Rochelle (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1941-08-29 |
| Death date | 2020-11-15 |
| Place of birth | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Place of death | East Haven (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | Law Law--Study and teaching Civil rights |
| Affiliation | Peace Corps (U.S.) Cotton, Watt, Jones & King NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Temple University. School of Law NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division Yale Law School United States. Solicitor General Morrison & Foerster Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Civil rights lawyers Law teachers College teachers |
| Found in | Justice enjoined, c1992: title page (Drew S. Days, III) AALS directory of law teachers, 1988-89: pages 266-267 (Days, Drew S., 3d; male; born 1941; LL.B., 1966, Yale; admitted to bar in Illinois, 1966, New York, 1970; associate at Cotton, Watt, Jones & King, Chicago, IL,1966-1967; associate counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NYC, 1969-1973, 1975-1977; associate professor, Temple, 1973-1975; assistant attorney general, Department of Justice, DC, 1977-1981; assoc. prof., Yale, 1981-1986, professor, 1986-; member ALI, editorial board since 1987; Lawyers Com. for Civil Rights Under Law; Bd., U.S. Citizens' Com. to Monitor the Helsinki Accords) Washington post website, viewed November 23, 2020: in obituary dated November 19, 2020 (Drew S. Days III; died November 15 in East Haven, Connecticut, age 79; spent decades seeking to advance the cause of civil rights from positions both inside and outside the government; lawyer, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; head, Justice Department Civil Rights Division, 1977-1980; first Black person to head any division in the Justice Department; joined Yale Law School faculty in 1981, teaching until his retirement in 2018; leave of absence from Yale to serve as solicitor general, 1993-1996; born in Atlanta on August 29, 1941; grew up in Tampa, also lived in New Rochelle, New York; bachelor's degree in English literature, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, 1963; J.D., Yale, 1966; briefly practiced law in Chicago, then served in the Peace Corps in Honduras before joining the NAACP) <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/drew-days-iii-dead/2020/11/19/ef2307d6-29cb-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html> Wikipedia, viewed November 23, 2020 (Drew S. Days III; Drew Saunders Days III; August 29, 1941-November 15, 2020; headed Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP, of counsel at the firm's Washington, DC office until his retirement from the firm in December 2011; admitted to practice law before the US Supreme Court and in the states of Illinois and New York; member, Democratic Party) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_S._Days_III> |
| Associated language | eng |
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