Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, that won't make much of a defense should the cybervandals ever find themselves in court. The FBI says it isn't planning any more arrests soon. In the meantime, expect more of this phony war: no charges, no collateral damage and a heck of a lot of posturing--on both sides...
...above all, we want the good influence of women to tell to its greatest extent in the social and moral questions of the time. But we cannot do this unless we have the vote and are recognised as citizens and voices to be listened to." Her plea to the court in 1912 ringingly concluded, "We are here, not because we are lawbreakers; we are here in our efforts to become lawmakers...
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...
...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...
Working full time for the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall persuaded the Supreme Court to integrate Missouri's all-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...