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St. John Barrett (May 21, 1923 - May 28, 2012) was a prominent trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during much of the Civil Rights Movement, from 1955 to 1967. According to former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, "St. John Barrett... served with distinction on the front lines of the struggle for Civil Rights".[1]
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Barrett was a Washington-based federal prosecutor who participated in a number of well-known civil-rights initiatives undertaken by the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations; these include actions associated with the enrollment of the Little Rock Nine in 1957, the Ole Miss riot of 1962, and the assassination of civil-rights worker Viola Liuzzo by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1965.[1][2]