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...statement released last night, Rudenstine said Higginbotham's loss has left a void in the nation and at Harvard...
...losing Leon Higginbotham we have lost a giant oak, and we are left with an enormous gap in the landscape of the nation," he said. "He was a powerful presence and voice, a voice that has influenced our legal and judicial world for decades...
Rudenstine lauded Higginbotham's strength and conviction in fighting for civil rights...
...Judge Higginbotham always championed the cause of equity and fairness," Rudenstine said. "But he did so without ever diminishing the strength of his conviction that the nation still has a very great distance to travel before African Americans will have gained genuine equity of opportunity...
...Higginbotham's accomplishments as a lawyerearned him a special place in history, Ogletreesaid. "His great qualities as a judge werereflected in the fact that, along with ThurgoodMarshall, he was at the top of Lyndon Johnson'slist for the first African-American appointment tothe U.S. Supreme Court," he said...