Word: segregationism
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Thurgood Marshall was the only member of the Supreme Court who knew how it felt to be called a nigger. In the 1940s and '50s when he roamed the courtrooms of the South as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall suffered all the indignities of segregation. He...
Very little about the law was abstract to Marshall. He not only suffered its worst failure, the long reign of legal segregation, but he was also the architect of one of its greatest triumphs. He was the victorious attorney in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark decision that...
There can be no doubt that Marshall's personal experience shaped his view of the law. He was born in Baltimore in 1908, when the city was as segregated as any in the deep South. Because the University of Maryland law school barred blacks, Marshall gave up hope of attending...
When Nelson Mandela gathers his followers next week for their first conference inside the country in 30 years, they should be able to review their achievements with pride. The African National Congress, established in 1912, is nearer than ever to its goal of replacing apartheid with democracy for all races...
That, of course, does not mean apartheid will then cease to exist. The legal structure built up over more than 40 years cannot be demolished quite that quickly, and provincial and local governments have ways of maintaining segregation even when it is no longer required by federal law, for example...