Doar, John, 1921-
Biography:
John Doar served as First Assistant and then Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Dept. of Justice, from 1960 to 1967, the critical years of the civil rights movement. He also served as Special Counsel to the House of Representatives with respect to the impeachment of President Nixon and as counsel to the judicial investigation of a sitting federal judge (which ultimately led to his impeachment). -- The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Ada Lois Sipuel v. Board of Regents University of Oklahoma, 1948- (Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Archives and Records Commission)
- Alabama Media Group Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Firemen spraying adolescent civil rights demonstrators with a hose during the Children's Crusade in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Hosea Williams and John Lewis leading marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday. (Negatives (photographs))
- Jim Letherer resting and smoking a cigarette during a stop on the Selma to Montgomery March. (Negatives (photographs))
- Nina Simone performing at the "Stars for Freedom" rally at the City of St. Jude in Montgomery, Alabama, the night before the end of the Selma to Montgomery March. (Negatives (photographs))
- Police blockade in Selma, Alabama, probably on Bloody Sunday (March 7). (Negatives (photographs))
- Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. during the Selma to Montgomery March. (Negatives (photographs))
- Sammy Davis Jr. performing at the "Stars for Freedom" rally at the City of St. Jude in Montgomery, Alabama, the night before the end of the Selma to Montgomery March. (Negatives (photographs))
- Truck carrying portable toilets for marchers during the Selma to Montgomery March. (Negatives (photographs))
- Truck carrying portable toilets parked by Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, possibly on Bloody Sunday (March 7). (Negatives (photographs))
- Two young African American men at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, possibly on Bloody Sunday (March 7). (Negatives (photographs))
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Oral History Collections (Butler Center for Arkansas Studies)
- Jim Porter interview audio clip 19 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Joycelyn Elders interview audio clip 27 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Kathryn Fitzhugh interview audio clip 21 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Kathryn Fitzhugh interview audio clip 24 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Kathryn Fitzhugh interview audio clip 25 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Kathryn Fitzhugh interview audio clip 26 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Pat Carr interview audio clip 21 (Oral histories (document genres))
- Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection (University of Southern California Libraries)
- Chattanooga Sit-ins and desegregation (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
- Civil Rights History Project (Library of Congress)
- Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
- Prince Edward School Foundation (background) and children, Green Bay, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prince Edward School Foundation (background) and children, Green Bay, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prince Edward School Foundation bus at Worsham Academy, Worsham, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prince Edward School Foundation lower school, Green Bay, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prince Edward School Foundation lower school, Green Bay, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prince Edward School Foundation lower school, Green Bay, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prospect Elementary School, Prospect, Va., cannery building, 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Prospect Elementary School, Prospect, Va., main building, 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Recreation center in Farmville, Va., 1962-1962 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Recreation center in Farmville, Va., 1962-1962 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Recreation center in Farmville, Va., 1962-1963 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Integration Correspondence (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- Joy S. Cooke to Mr. Meredith (2 October 1962) (Correspondence)
- Joyanne Marcus to Mr. Meredith (30 September 1962) (Correspondence)
- Joyce Cortland to Mr. Meredith (1 October 1962) (Correspondence)
- Joyce W. Bonura to Mr. Meredith (3 October 1962) (Correspondence)
- Judith P. Coen to Mr. Meredith (2 October 1962) (Correspondence)
- Judy C. Franz to Mr. Meredith (1 October 1962) (Correspondence)
- Judy Guderian to James Meredith (5 October 1962) (Correspondence)
- James O. Eastland Collection Photographs (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- James W. Silver Collection (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- John E. Phay Collection (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
- Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000 (University of South Carolina)
- Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of the back side of two checks, one of which is stamped by Security Pacific National Bank, another that is endorsed by Arthur Tindall, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1972 March 20 (Records (documents))
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Theodore R. Jacqueney that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Thomas E. Beckham at the time of his arrest, as found in the Sovereignty Commission's file for Thomas Edward Beckham, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1972 March 20 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Tim [sic] Morrison that accompanied his application form to participate in the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer Project, Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 May 4 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of William Andrew Wendt following his arrest for his participation in a Freedom Ride of Episcopal clergymen, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 September 13 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of William Benjamin Mitchell following his arrest for his participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 May 28 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Willie Ricks dressed in overalls and standing with a group of young African American males on a sidewalk in Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 June (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Willie Walker wearing a suit jacket and necktie, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1950s (Black-and-white photographs)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the need for tolerance, 1966 November (News)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the philosophy of nonviolence and recent violent demonstrations in Virginia, 1963 (News)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 June (News)