Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in the early 1970s to have volunteers ensure that schools in the South were integrating classes within schools. While with the law firm of Covington & Burling, he continued his advocacy work at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, as president of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Douglas died at age 88, due to complications of a stroke in his home in Washington, D.C. He was survived by a daughter, a son, four grandchildren and a great-grandson. His wife, the former Mary St. John, died in 2007 after 62 years of marriage. See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8) References 1921 births 2010 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford United States Navy personnel of World War II American Rhodes Scholars Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States United States Navy officers Princeton University alumni Yale Law School alumni United States Assistant Attorneys General for the Civil Division People associated with Covington & Burling Carnegie Endowment for International Peace