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The remarkable work on civil rights done by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department bore a distinctly Republican stamp: John Doar, a celebrated member of that team--who single-handedly stopped an incipient riot at Medgar Evars' funeral by stepping into an angry crowd and yelling, "Anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!"
Previous recipients of the law school's Public Service Award are other UM law alumni: Forest attorney Constance Slaughter-Harvey; Luther Ott, formerly director of Stewpot Community Services in Jackson; and Bobby DeLaughter, the former district attorney who spearheaded the prosecution of Medgar Evers' assassin Byron De La Beckwith.
Celebrities exhumed in the 1990s include Czar Nicholas II, outlaw Jesse James, civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, and President Zachary Taylor.
The files are believed to provide material for lawsuits against the state and also for the reopening of long-dormant cases of crimes against civil rights workers, along the lines of the long-delayed but finally successful prosecution of the man who murdered Medgar Evers.
And yet, there were also appalling setbacks: NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated.