Burke Marshall
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Burke Marshall
- head of the civil rights division in Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice in the early 1960s.
- assistant attorney general for civil rights during the JFK administration
- resigned his office in December of 1964
- died June 2, 2003 aged 80 at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, of complications of myelodisplasia, a bone disorder.
- faculty at the New Haven university for more than 30 years.
- vice president and general counsel at IBM 1965 - 1970.
- Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor Emeritus of Law
- George W. Crawford Professorial Lecturer in Law
- 1942 - 1946 U.S. Army Japanese linguist and cryptoanalyst
- 1960 law firm of Covington and Burling, partner
- 1970 Yale Law School deputy dean and professor.
- 1986 named Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor
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- four grandchildren.
See also:
- Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
- governors Ross Barnett of Mississippi and George Wallace of Alabama
- University of Mississippi