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Burke Marshall, Key Strategist of Civil Rights Policy, Dies at 80 (1022 words) |
 | Marshall was a chief contributor to rights victories that included the government's 1961 ban on segregation in interstate travel, the desegregation of the University of Mississippi the following year and adoption of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred discrimination in public accommodations. |
| Marshall's preference was to negotiate, with figures as diverse as the Rev. Dr. |
| Marshall was born in Plainfield, N.J., on Oct. 1, 1922, and graduated from Yale in 1943. |
| Teachers' Domain: Burke Marshall (513 words) |
| Marshall was appointed an assistant attorney general, and led a team of lawyers who made up the new Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice. |
| Marshall was an aggressive advocate for racial equality and a leading figure in the federal government's efforts to desegregate the South. |
| Marshall was instrumental in defusing racial tensions between protesters and city officials in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963. |
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