Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Robert L. Carter, an Architect of School Desegregation, Dies at 94

The New York Times
By ROY REED
Published: January 3, 2012

Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on racial segregation in 20th-century America, died on Tuesday morning in Manhattan. He was 94.
The cause was complications of a stroke, said his son John W. Carter, a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/nyregion/robert-l-carter-judge-and-desegregation-strategist-dies-at-94.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all

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