John Doar, a prominent former government attorney who led federal efforts to protect and enforce civil rights as assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division in the 1960s, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at home in Manhattan. He was 92.
Doar worked for the Justice Department from 1960 to 1967, challenging policies in several Southern states that discriminated against minority access to higher education and the voting booth.
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