Drew S. Days III, first African American to lead civil rights division at Justice Department, dies at 79

Drew S. Days III, a lawyer who grew up in the segregated South and devoted much of his career to the cause of racial equality, becoming the first African American to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division and later serving as solicitor general under President Bill Clinton, died Nov. 15 at a long-term care facility in East Haven, Conn. He was 79.