Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife had employed Parks as a seamstress. That evening, after talking it over with her mother and husband, Rosa Parks agreed to challenge the constitutionality of Montgomery's segregation laws. During a midnight meeting of the Women's Political Council, 35,000 handbills were mimeographed for distribution to all black schools the next morning. The message was simple...
Monday came. Rain threatened, yet the black population of Montgomery stayed off the buses, either walking or catching one of the black cabs stopping at every municipal bus stop for 10[cents] per customer--standard bus fare. Meanwhile, Parks was scheduled to appear in court. As she made her way through the throngs at the courthouse, a demure figure in a long-sleeved black dress with white collar and cuffs, a trim black velvet hat, gray coat and white gloves, a girl in the crowd caught sight of her and cried out, "Oh, she's so sweet. They've messed...
Thurgood Marshall got his start traveling the South in a beat-up 1929 Ford with a colleague, banging out legal papers in the car on a manual typewriter. Taking on Jim Crow, the South's entrenched regime of racial segregation, was dangerous work. When Marshall made the rounds of black schools in Mississippi, documenting their shacklike buildings and paltry textbooks, the state N.A.A.C.P. president arranged to have a hearse filled with armed men follow Marshall's car for protection...
...most important lawyers of the 20th century. He was the architect of one of America's most radical transformations: the removal of legal racism, root and branch, from the nation's leading institutions. Just as important, Marshall's personal journey--the grandson of a slave, he became the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court--was a shining example of the more open society he dedicated his life to achieving...
...born in Baltimore, Md., in 1908, when it was still a sleepy Southern town, and he attended its segregated schools. After graduating from Howard Law School--the University of Maryland's law school didn't admit blacks--Marshall hung up a shingle in his hometown and did volunteer legal work for the local N.A.A.C.P. One of his early cases challenged pay gaps in education--black elementary school teachers in Maryland earned $621 a year, while white janitors made $960. Marshall's mother was one of those underpaid teachers...