Mary A. R. Marshall
| Mary A. R. Marshall | |
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| Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Arlington | |
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In office January 12, 1966 – January , 1970 Serving with C. Harrison Mann, Wallace G. Dickson, William M. Lightsey |
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| Preceded by | Kathryn H. Stone |
| Succeeded by | George Mason Green, Jr. |
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In office January 12, 1972 – January , 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Henry O. Lampe |
| Succeeded by | Julia A. Connolly |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 14, 1923 Cook County, Illinois |
| Died | October 9, 1992 Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Roger Dureya Marshall |
| Children | Neil, Alice, Jenny |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
Mary Aydelotte Rice Marshall (June 14, 1921 – October, 1992) was an American civic activist, housewife and Democratic politician who represented Arlington, Virginia in the Virginia General Assembly for more than twenty years.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, where her father John Andrew Rice was teaching and studying at the University of Chicago, Marion Aydelotte Rice moved with her family to Nebraska, England and finally North Carolina, where her father helped found Black Mountain College in 1933. Mary Rice attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where her mother's brother Frank Aydelotte was president, and graduated with highest honors.
She met Roger Dureya Marshall when they were both working for the Alien Property Custodian Office in Washington, D.C. during World War II. They married in 1944 and three daughters who survived them.
After moving to Washington D.C. in 1942, Marshall worked as an economist for the U.S. Department of Justice until 1946. She and her husband settled in Arlington, Virginia in 1953.
As a housewife, Mrs. Marshall became politically active in the League of Women Voters, then the local Democratic Party (which she found conservative but not in lockstep with the Byrd Organization). Marshall consistently opposed the Byrd Organization's Massive Resistance against the Supreme Court's school desegregation decisions in Brown v. Board of Education, and later commented that she was initially one of 17 "liberals" out of 70 local Democratic Committee members. Arlington voluntarily desegregated in February 1959 after Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. broke with the Byrd Organization and acceded to decisions by a three-judge federal panel and the Virginia Supreme Court issued on January 19, 1959. Marshall and a fellow desegregation advocate entertained frightened parents on the day that Stratford Junior high School quietly desegregated.
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