Howe, Mark De Wolfe (22 May 1906–28 February 1967), legal historian and civil rights activist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, a noted biographer, and Fanny Huntington Quincy. Howe lived in the Boston-Cambridge area all of his life. He attended prestigious Phillips Andover Academy and received his B.A. from Harvard in 1928, then his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1933. In 1935 he married Mary Manning, with whom he had three children....
