NYT: William A. Bootle, Judge in Desegregation Case, Dies at 102

[truthpusher]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/national/27bootle.html

William A. Bootle, Judge in Desegregation Case, Dies at 102
By MARGALIT FOX

Published: January 27, 2005

William Augustus Bootle, who as a federal judge in 1961 set in motion a chain of legal decisions that in a single week desegregated the University of Georgia, died on Tuesday at his home in Macon, Ga. He was 102.

Judge Bootle's family announced the death.

Judge Bootle, appointed to the Federal District Court in Georgia by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954, presided over other civil rights cases in the state.

"I think Bootle will always go down in the annals of Southern and civil rights history as one of a handful of progressive-minded, courageous judges who were willing to make pivotal decisions at very key times in the 1960's," said Robert A. Pratt, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the author of "We Shall Not Be Moved" (University of Georgia, 2002), an account of the university's integration.

The university case, Holmes v. Danner, began in late 1960, after two black students, Charlayne Hunter (now the journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault) and Hamilton E. Holmes, were denied admission. The suit named Walter Danner, the university registrar.

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[Dookus]

1. wow... 102

what a life. And I didn't know Charlayne Hunter-Gault was one of th students.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. God Bless his soul

Amen