ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, December 9, 1995 TAG: 9512110079
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: ARLINGTON
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
SOURCE: Associated Press
Edmund D. Campbell, a lawyer who helped argue the landmark ``one man, one vote'' case and fought "massive resistance" in Virginia, has died. He was 96.
Campbell, founding partner of the Jackson & Campbell law firm in Washington, D.C., died Thursday at his home in Arlington.
In 1962, Campbell gave the closing argument in the U.S. Supreme Court case that established the right of all citizens to equal representation in their legislatures. Campbell had challenged Virginia's apportionment, arguing that Arlington and Fairfax were shortchanged.
Before the Supreme Court's decision, some state legislatures were controlled by lawmakers from sparsely populated rural areas while urban areas lacked adequate representation.
Five years earlier, Campbell helped form the Save Our Schools Committee to fight a state law passed to undermine the Supreme Court decision requiring integration of public schools.
The ``massive resistance'' movement resulted in some public schools being closed. The law was challenged in Norfolk, and Campbell accepted the case and won.
``I felt that my life and my career as a lawyer was on the line, [but] I wanted to take the case,'' Campbell said years later. ``I wanted to do something that I felt was the right thing to do.''
Campbell also successfully challenged a Virginia law barring integrated seating in public places in 1957.
Campbell received his undergraduate and law degrees from Washington & Lee University and a master's in economics from Harvard.
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