John Doar, a former Justice Department lawyer who played a key role in many major civil rights struggles of the 1960s, passed away on Tuesday at age 92, The Associated Press reports.
Doar joined the Justice Department as a civil rights lawyer in 1960, during President Dwight Eisenhower's final year in office. He then stayed on during the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, during which time he was involved in such landmark events as the admission of African-American student James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; the securing of voting rights for black citizens in the South; and the prosecution of the murderers of three civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, whose killers included a local deputy county sheriff.
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