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Marvin Scott

1944–

United States

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Marvin Bailey Scott (born March 10, 1944) is an American politician and university professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is nationally known for his involvement in school desegregation cases, figuring in five federal desegregation cases (in the Boston School desegregation case as a Court Appointed Expert). He currently serves on the Regional and Local Council of the Boy Scouts of America. . Scott ran for political office several times as a Republican.

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