Word: browne
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...white law school. He also got it to strike down Texas' whites-only primary elections. And he prevailed on the court to stop Virginia from ordering blacks traveling through on interstate buses to move to the back of the bus. But Marshall's greatest victory was in Brown v. Board of Education. That landmark ruling, handed down on May 17, 1954, held that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites violated the Constitution. It caused a firestorm as the South vowed "massive resistance" to school integration. When Marshall appeared on NBC's Youth Wants to Know, Georgia stations...
Marshall never doubted that his side would prevail in the end. "You can say all you want," Marshall told a black newspaper publisher not long after Brown was decided, "but those white crackers are going to get tired of having Negro lawyers beating them every day in court." In time Marshall would persuade the court to extend the Brown principles to public accommodations ranging from public housing to beaches...
During the indoor season, the Harvard women were perfect, beating B.C., Northeastern, Brown and Cornell in a tri-meet, Princeton and Yale...
...feel great about [winning the championship]," said sophomore Virginia Brown. "We're excited about how we ended the season...
...February, they easily dominated Princeton, B.C., B.U. and Columbia. Yet, the team found more difficulty against Lehigh, Penn, Cornell, and Brown, the conference's top wrestling programs...