Bart Barnes

As a reporter in the 1970s and 1980s, he specialized in writing about transportation. He also was assistant Metropolitan editor and a business-desk editor.

Until the end of his medical career, Dr. Lawrenz continued to make house calls. It was a “privilege,” he said, to visit patients at their homes.

With his instrument of choice, he called himself a “political cartoonist for the blind.”

He resigned in 1986 as State Department spokesman to protest a government disinformation campaign.

The former NAACP legal secretary married Marshall in 1955 and burnished his reputation as the leading legal architect of the civil rights movement.

Mr. Pyatt was among an early corps of Black journalists who cracked the segregation barriers of Southern newspapers when he began his career in 1964 at his hometown publication, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier.

He was chairman of the Arnold & Porter law firm in Washington, general counsel to the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System and Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.

He specialized in negligence and personal-injury cases, civil law and public-sector employment and was for 13 years general counsel to the Fraternal Order of Police in Washington.

Working under two presidents, he helped reduce obstacles to imports and exports on world markets.  The Washington Post

She led the school for 21 years until retiring in 1996.