Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long ... Marsh rose to prominence as a young lawyer during the civil rights movement and helped mount the legal challenge to “Massive Resistance ...
Henry Marsh was even there, listening quietly from his back-row desk in the Senate of Virginia ... Before that, Marsh had taken up the causes of African Americans’ rights as a young attorney in the ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond’s first African American mayor Henry Marsh III died at 91 years old on Friday. Marsh was a political trailblazer, with his impact spanning far beyond Richmond ...
Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long-serving Virginia state senator who in 1977 became the first Black mayor of Richmond, ushering in an era of African American leadership in the ...