John Doar, a top Justice Department lawyer during the 1960s who was the face of the federal government during some of the most sensitive conflicts of the civil rights era, escorting the first black ...

John Doar, who as a Justice Department lawyer in the 1960s escorted James Meredith as he integrated the University of Mississippi, and who later helped prepare articles of impeachment against ...

The Scrapbook, ever mindful of the passage of time, couldn’t help but notice the obituary for John Doar in a recent edition of the Washington Post. Doar, who died last week at the age of 92, had been ...

The news of attorney John Doar's death at 92 on Tuesday sent a wave of solemnity through the country, prompting multiple obituaries detailing his extensive work fighting discrimination and working for ...

One day in the spring of 2013, I got a call from Bob Moses, perhaps the least well known of the major heroes of the civil-rights movement, asking me if I would meet with him and John Doar at Doar’s ...

Anyone who followed the Watergate saga knows that Richard Nixon, history's yard waste and a criminal president, was done in by the monotones. First, there was John Dean before the committee chaired by ...

This week, we passed a milestone in our nation’s long, complex history of race relations. John Michael Doar, one of the civil rights movement’s unlikeliest heroes – and perhaps one you’ve never heard ...