| 词条 | John Doar |
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| name = John Doar | image = James Meredith OleMiss.jpg | alt = | caption = John Doar (right) and U.S. marshals escorting James Meredith to class at the University of Mississippi |birth_name=John Andrew Doar | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|12|3|mf=y}} | birth_place = New Richmond, Wisconsin | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|11|11|1921|12|03|mf=y}} | death_place = New York City, New York | nationality = | other_names = | alma_mater = Princeton University UC Berkeley School of Law | occupation = Lawyer | known_for = }} John Andrew Doar (December 3, 1921 – November 11, 2014) was an American lawyer and senior counsel with the law firm Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack in New York City. He had a notable role as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1961 to 1965 and as head of the division from 1965 until 1967, during the civil rights years of the administrations of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He led the government's response in events such as the admission and protection of James Meredith as the first black student to the University of Mississippi, as well as the evolving response to the civil rights movement promoting integration and voter registration in the South. Early lifeDoar was born in New Richmond, Wisconsin, the son of Mae and William Doar.[1] In 1940, Doar graduated from St. Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[2] He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and was a pilot. He was a graduate of Princeton University (A.B. 1944) and the University of California-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law (LL.B. 1949). From 1950 to 1960, Doar then worked in his family's law firm in New Richmond, Wisconsin.[1] Civil rights careerDoar served as First Assistant and then Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Dept. of Justice, from 1960 to 1967,[4] during which time he was involved in several of the most significant events of the American civil rights movement. In 1961 he operated in Montgomery, Alabama, along with his assistant, John Seigenthaler, to protect the Freedom Riders.[5] In 1962, he confronted Ross Barnett over Barnett's attempts to prevent James Meredith from entering the segregated University of Mississippi. He also prosecuted Collie Leroy Wilkins for federal civil rights violations in the murder of Viola Liuzzo,[3] gaining conviction by an all-white jury in Alabama. In 1963, he calmed an angry mob after the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, murdered outside his home.[7] Doar prosecuted the federal case for civil rights violations against the people who were accused of murdering Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner,[4] young civil rights workers in Mississippi. He had earlier contributed to drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Lyndon Johnson signed to try to enforce constitutional rights for all citizens. In March 1965, Doar was the first to arrive in Montgomery, Alabama, during the third of the Selma to Montgomery marches. He walked into Montgomery half a block ahead of the march in his capacity as Assistant Attorney General.[5] Private careerDoar left the government in 1967. He went into private practice and worked for Bedford Stuyvesant Development Corporation.[1] From late 1968 to 1969 he was president of the New York City Board of Education.[6] During his tenure he supported gender discrimination, opposing the entry of girls to all-boy high schools.[7] He returned to service in 1974, appointed as Special Counsel for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, which was then investigating the Watergate scandal and preparing articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He then started a law firm in New York City: Doar, Rieck, Kaley, & Mack.[1][8] DeathDoar died in New York City, New York from congestive heart failure, aged 92.[1] He is survived by his daughter Gael Walsh, Michael Doar, Robert Doar a former Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration and Burke Doar. Representation in other media
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |author=Roy Reed |date=November 11, 2014 |title=John Doar, Federal Lawyer on Front Lines Against Segregation, Dies at 92 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/us/john-doar-federal-lawyer-in-battle-against-segregation-dies-at-92.html |page=A25}} 2. ^https://www.spa.edu/page.cfm?p=795 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/filmandmedia/collections/henry-hampton-collection/eyes1/doar.htm | title = Introduction to John Doar Oral History | publisher = Washington University at St. Louis | accessdate = 20 July 2012 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://archive.li/20121215120155/http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/filmandmedia/collections/henry-hampton-collection/eyes1/doar.htm | archivedate = 15 December 2012 | df = }} 4. ^1 {{cite news | title = The quiet authority of John Doar, a towering figure of the civil rights movement | newspaper = The Anniston Star | author = John Fleming | date = 21 November 2010 | url = http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/10386877/article-The-quiet-authority-of-John-Doar--a-towering-figure--of-the-civil-rights-movement | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110928033235/http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/10386877/article-The-quiet-authority-of-John-Doar--a-towering-figure--of-the-civil-rights-movement | archivedate = 28 September 2011 | df = }} 5. ^1 {{cite news |author=Jimmy Breslin |date=March 26, 1965 |newspaper=New York Herald-Tribune |title=Changing the South}} reprinted in {{cite book |editor=Clayborne Carson |title=Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1963-1973 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8HtAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=20 July 2012 |year=2003 |publisher=Library of America |pages=361–366 |display-editors=etal}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/21/archives/a-hardworking-legal-adviser-john-michael-doar-phone-call-from-laird.html|title=A Hard‐Working Legal Adviser|last=Doar|first=John Michael|date=1973-12-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-a-thirteen-year-old-girl-smashed-the-gender-divide-in-american-high-schools|title=How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools|last=Shapiro|first=Laurie Gwen|date=2019-01-26|access-date=2019-01-30|language=en|issn=0028-792X}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.doarlaw.com/bios/john-doar.html |publisher=Doar, Rieck, Kaley, & Mack |title=biography |accessdate=July 20, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601084141/http://www.doarlaw.com/bios/john-doar.html |archivedate=June 1, 2012 }} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Features/2012-Presidential-Medal-of-Freedom-recipients/6540 |publisher=UPI |title=2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients |accessdate=July 20, 2012}} Further reading
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