Klan lead prosecutor dies at age 92

John Doar, head of the US Justice Department's civil rights division in the 1960s, and well-known for a case against a Ku Klux Klan leader, has died at age 92.

He was also known for accompanying black student James Meredith onto the campus of the University of Mississippi in 1962, when it was still segregated. He was the lead prosecutor in a case which saw a Klan leader and the Mississippi deputy sheriff convicted of murdering three civil rights workers. 

Face of the south

President Barack Obama awarded him the Medal of Freedom two years ago, saying: ‘He was the face of the Justice Department in the South. He was proof that the federal government was listening.’ Source: ABA

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