Word: casket
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Owen, 19, of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, carries a key chain bearing the inscription, A TISKET, A TASKET, A CONDOM OR A CASKET...
Last Wednesday, Thurgood Marshall lay in state in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court of the U.S. From 10 in the morning until 10 that night, a steady flow of people filed past his casket, which was draped with a flag and supported by the same bier on which Abraham Lincoln's coffin had rested. By evening, the number of mourners had reached nearly...
...those who led the protest demonstrations of the '60s, particularly Martin Luther King Jr. At last week's memorial services, however, people from all walks of life showed their appreciation of how indelibly he has marked our society. Beneath a portrait of the Justice that was displayed alongside his casket, a mourner placed a copy of the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case in which Marshall the lawyer successfully argued that the Constitution prohibits racial segregation in public schooling. At the bottom of the first page of the opinion, the anonymous admirer wrote...
...stood with other clerks and family members beside Justice Marshall's casket, my own memories grew more vivid: his delightfully unfashionable dress (the Justice often wore white socks with black shoes); his way of letting clerks know that their advocacy for a certain course of action had degenerated from advice to nuisance ("I'm the one who was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson and confirmed by the Senate of the United States . . . not you); his insistence upon using the word Negro to identify an African American (though recently he had begun to use the term Afro-American); his deep...
...University choir led the congregation in singing Lift Every Voice and Sing, long known as the Negro National Anthem, at the conclusion of the service that was held at the National Cathedral the day after the Supreme Court's memorial ceremony. As the pallbearers slowly rolled the Justice's casket across the cathedral's floor, I imagined that he would have especially appreciated this stanza...