Henry L. Marsh’s fight was for civil rights, but his values — justice, fairness, equality — extend far beyond any single ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was Richmond’s ...

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long ... But the “daily affronts to my dignity,” he wrote in a memoir, “also motivated me to do something constructive.” ...

Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated ... Richmond by a disgruntled tenant of a client. Marsh published his memoirs in 2018 in which he recounted the days of Jim Crow, including ...

Sen. Henry Marsh, D-Richmond, at an event hosted by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in 2009 marking the 50th anniversary of the end of Massive Resistance. (Courtesy of UVA Center ...

It could be easy at times to forget that Sen. Henry Marsh was even there, listening quietly from his back-row desk in the Senate of Virginia. Marsh, who died last week at the age of 91, wasn’t flashy ...

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 ...

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 Marsh’s unflinchingly honest and profoundly moving memoir is essentially a long apology to the patients and their relatives whose lives he has, in his own words, ‘wrecked’. Looking back as he ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond said its final goodbye today to one of its most influential leaders, Henry Marsh III, the city’s first Black mayor and a dedicated civil rights attorney.