Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become one of the most important lawyers of the 20th 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...
...quotas in medical-school admissions, Marshall took issue with those who said poor whites should be given the same help as blacks. "There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white," Marshall said. He could be bitingly acerbic, falling into slave dialect and calling the other Justices "Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil...
McCombe, who wears a black Russian hat with an off-kilter security guard emblem, says he believes that the University has been unreasonably slow in its negotiating tactics. He jokes, but only partially, that the "S" on his hat stands for security and not slave...
...paraphrase Tolstoy, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. While I can't imagine spending eternity at the side of a slave master, some of Hemings' descendants want to be buried in the family cemetery at Monticello. But some of the 700-member all-white Monticello Association don't want to let their black relatives in, even as corpses. They weren't even planning to invite Hemings' 33 known descendants to the reunion until Lucian Truscott IV--a writer who seems to have inherited more of Jefferson's spirit than the rest of the Monticello Association put together...
...Schlant, a professor of German at Montclair State University in New Jersey and the wife of Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and current challenger for the White House. Later Schlant learned that less than two miles from Passau, hundreds of civilian prisoners were being worked to death at a slave-labor camp--a detail that never came up in polite conversation...