article_snippet: Historic: Walter Fauntroy raises Marion Barry's hand in victory after Marion Barry won Marion Barry campaign for a seat on the school board on November 1, 1971 in Washington, DC .
article_snippet: Walter Fauntroy accepted and became the civil rights organization’s lobbyist in Congress until 1970.
article_snippet: Walter Fauntroy lobbied for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
article_snippet: the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and worked on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965, and the Meredith Mississippi Freedom March in 1966.