Word: segregationism
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The most important thing for young black people to do is what you and I did -- become educated. If you are educated, then at least you have some kind of chance. Learn to think, to read, to be in touch with the larger world. One of the saddest things I...
Thomas, 43, is a bundle of seeming contradictions: a black conservative who made it out of dirt-poor rural Georgia to Yale Law School and the highest ranks of government yet is opposed to all racial preferences; a founding member of the Black Student Union at Holy Cross and a...
As he traveled through the South, Marshall was routinely threatened. More than once he found himself facing a white racist with a gun. Undaunted, Marshall and his team laid the legal groundwork for their victory in Brown. Working again with Houston and other civil rights lawyers, Marshall had to convince...
Marshall's victory in Brown was not only the beginning of the end for legal segregation: it also opened the way for later claims to equal protection under the law by other minorities and women. A generation of civil rights lawyers flocked to Marshall throughout the 1950s, when he still...
There was some irony in this clash of judicial views. Rehnquist was appointed to the court by Richard Nixon and promoted to Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan, both harsh critics of activist judges. As a civil rights attorney, Marshall won landmark rulings that overturned long-standing precedents upholding legal segregation...