Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thurgood Marshall, the first negative speaker, introduced the definition of "intermixing" as "intimate and indiscriminate association." Such intermixing produces descendants neither colored nor white, frequently ostracized by both, he went on to say. "The family unit is destroyed, and all genuine society suffers. All intermixing in times of slavery was illegal intermixing. Perhaps some one in the audience would make this legal. But did Prohibition purge John Barleycorn...
...negro college, at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Tremont Temple on the question: "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable." The Harvard team, composed of J. K. Fairbank '29 and E. H. Hubbard '30, will uphold the affirmative, while R. H. Hill and Thurgood Marshall, of Lincoln University, will uphold the negative of the question. L. G. Brooks '02, a Boston lawyer, will preside...