WASHINGTON, DC– John Doar, former Civil Rights lawyer and member of special counsel during Watergate, died Tuesday at the age of 92.
When John Doar received the Presidential Medal of Honor, Obama called him “the face of the Department of Justice in the South” in 2012. It’s a name that Doar lived out to the fullest.
In the ’60s, Doar served as a civil right lawyer for the Department of Justice. He also prosecuted men responsible for the murders of civil rights workers done by the Ku Klux Klan. Doar also escorted James Meredith onto the Ole Miss campus when he became the first black student admitted to the college, reports WJTV.
John Doar died Tuesday of heart failure at 92.
