Marshall, Burke

Marshall, Burke
▪ 2004

      American lawyer (b. Oct. 1, 1922, Plainfield, N.J.—d. June 2, 2003, Newton, Conn.), as assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice's civil rights division (1961–65), played a key role in the U.S. government's attempts to desegregate the South. Practical-minded and a fine negotiator, he did much to calm racial unrest, and his notable achievements included the desegregation of interstate travel (1961) and the University of Mississippi (1962), as well as the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964).

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