Milestones: Apr. 6, 1981

DIED. Emmitt Douglas, 55, civil rights activist and president of the Louisiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1968, who in 1956 initiated the lawsuit that desegregated Baton Rouge schools, and in 1971 was charged with inciting to riot during a demonstration against the shooting of two young blacks by white policemen; of a heart attack; in New Roads, La.

DIED. Jonas Robitscher, 60, Emory University professor and forensic psychiatrist who explored the legal and social ramifications of the science in such books as Pursuit of Agreement: Psychiatry and the Law (1966) and The Powers of Psychiatry (1980); of...

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