Burke Marshall was an American lawyer who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Burke Marshall attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1940, and received a BA from Yale University in 1943.
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Burke Marshall joined the army, working in the intelligence corps as a Japanese translator and cryptoanalyst.
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Burke Marshall ran a campaign to increase voter registration by blacks.
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Burke Marshall argued to not use the Fourteenth Amendment to overcome discrimination, instead favoring the federal government's constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.
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Burke Marshall used it as a basis to write the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment.
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Burke Marshall's reputation was not that of an office-based bureaucrat, but of a hands-on negotiator who dealt with many of the major figures across the civil rights drama, ranging from Martin Luther King Jr.
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Burke Marshall was the George W Crawford Professorial Lecturer in Law.
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At the Yale Law School, Burke Marshall taught courses in constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, and political and civil rights.
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Burke Marshall was the chair of the Vera Institute of Justice Board of Trustees between 1966 and 1986.
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Burke Marshall chaired the Center for Employment Opportunities in 1996.
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Burke Marshall died June 2,2003, aged 80, at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, of complications of myelodysplasia, a bone marrow disorder.
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Burke Marshall was survived by his wife Violet P Marshall, three daughters, Catie Marshall, Jane Marshall, both of Brooklyn, New York, and Josie Phillips of Plymouth, England, as well as four grandchildren: Ian Marshall Bakerman and Morgan Montgomery Bakerman of Catie Marshall and Nelson Bakerman; and James Marshall Phillips and Samuel Burke Phillips, who are the sons of Josie and Greg Phillips.