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Civil rights figure Burke Marshall dead at 80
06/03/2003 06:17 PM EDT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Burke Marshall, a Justice Department lawyer in the Kennedy administration who was a key figure in the government's efforts to desegregate the South, died Monday. He was 80.

Yale Law School announced on its Web site Monday that Marshall had died. Marshall had been a member of the faculty at the New Haven university for more than 30 years.

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