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Madel Morgan Stringerri918-2014
Former Mississippi Department of Archives and History division director Madel Morgan Stringer died November 12 in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She was 96 years old.
Born Margaret Adelia (Madel) Jacobs in Rosedale, Mississippi, on April 26, 1918, she was a great-granddaughter of Charles Clark, governor of Mississippi 1863-65. Madel Jacobs graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women) in 1939. In 1945 she was hired as secretary to MDAH director William David McCain, quickly working her way up to research assistant. She left the department in 1953 and soon accepted the position of librarian at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Jackson.
In 1968 she joined the Mississippi Library Commission, and in 1979 returned to MDAH as director of the Archives and Library Division. While in that position she oversaw the department’s participation'in the United States Newspaper Program, a cooperative national effort between the states
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and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the U.S. from the eighteenth
century to the present. She retired from the department in 1988.
Madel Morgan Stringer was president of the Mississippi Historical Society 1994-95 and a member of Daughters of the King at St. Columb’s Episcopal Church, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi, the Order of the First Families of Mississippi, and the Mississippi Library Association.
“Madel Jacobs Morgan Stringer was beloved by all who knew her,” said former MDAH director Elbert R. Hilliard. “Her commitment to effective and courteous public service through her association with the Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi Library Commission was unsurpassed. I was fortunate and blessed to have the opportunity to work with Madel during her second tour of duty with MDAH and benefitted immensely by her sound counsel and knowledge of our state’s history. She was indeed a very special lady.”
Justice Department Attorney John Doar, 1921-2014
John Doar, an attorney with the Justice Department whose legal efforts in Mississippi and other southern states helped lay the groundwork for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, died November 11 in New York City. He was 92.
“He was the face of the Justice Department in the South,” President Obama said in 2012 when he presented Doar with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. “He was proof that the federal government was listening.”
Doar was bom December 3, 1921, in Wisconsin. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II before graduating from Princeton University in 1946 and earning his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1949. Doar joined the Justice
Department in 1960 and led its civil rights division from 1964 to 1967.
In 1962, Doar was the federal point man during James Meredith’s efforts to become the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Doar stayed with Meredith in his dormitory room the night of the fatal riot that erupted after Meredith’s successful enrollment and remained with him for several weeks afterward.
In Jackson in the summer of
1963	an angry crowd of African Americans clashed with white police officers some fifty yards away after the assassination of Medgar Evers. Doar stepped into the no-man’s land to ward off the potentially deadly confrontation. “My name is John Doar,” he said. “D-O-A-R. I’m from the Justice Department, and anybody
around here knows I stand for what is right. You’re not going to win anything with bottles and bricks. Medgar Evers wouldn’t want it this way.”
In 1967 Doar successfully prosecuted the killers of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, including a Neshoba County deputy sheriff and the state head of the Ku Klux Klan.
Doar left the Justice Department in 1967 but returned to D.C. six years later as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee,
leading an impeachment inquiry of President Nixon’s activities during the Watergate scandal. “I’m a lawyer,” he said at the time. “I like to take on difficult cases. I •like to prepare cases. To me, success is seeing that justice is done, that the Constitution is preserved and fairness occurs.” “Mississippi was fortunate John Doar spent six* years riding the back roads of this state and in courtrooms fighting on the front line for the rights of our citizens,” said longtime journalist Bill Minor. “What John Doar did for the state of Mississippi is incalculable.”