Lawyer in civil rights struggle, Michael Trister, dies at 77

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A civil rights lawyer forced from a teaching position at the University of Mississippi in one of the last spasms of segregationist control there during the 1960s has died. Nancy Duff Campbell says her husband, 77-year-old Michael Trister, died Oct. 20 from pancreatic cancer in Washington, D.C. Trister made headlines in […]