Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eastland's succession to the judiciary chair is bound to have political repercussions in the North. Last week, for example N.A.A.C.P. Counsel Thurgood Marshall, a New Deal Democrat, said: "I have terrible difficulty in separating Adlai Stevenson's Democratic Party from Senator Eastland's Democratic Party. If I can ever separate them, I would assume I would be for Adlai Stevenson, but until I can separate them, I am against Senator Eastland's Democratic Party...
...Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the N.A.A.C.P., made the first move. After a more thorough examination, he told the court, his investigators had found no evidence to support the conspiracy charge. He asked leave to withdraw it. Over the objections of the university lawyer, Andrew J. Thomas, Judge Grooms approved, also allowed Marshall to withdraw charges against the four rioters, three of whom had already been arrested. After that, the case settled down to the basic issues: 1) Had the university been justified in suspending Autherine for the sake of safety, and 2) should it be ordered to take her back...
...Lucy case, one thing seemed certain. The N.A.A.C.P. was fighting a united and determined opposition in Alabama, and it could ill afford either the tactlessness or the impatience it has shown in some of its recent actions. Yet there also seemed to be a good deal in what Lawyer Thurgood Marshall said when he insisted that neither Autherine Lucy nor the N.A.A.C.P. were the real losers of this latest round. "You," he told a reporter, "and other American citizens have lost...
...Married. Thurgood Marshall, 47, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (TIME, Sept. 19); and Hawaiian-born Cecilia Suyat, 28; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...Your cover of Thurgood Marshall was offensive, and your account of the segregation problem unfair and untrue. You dam-yankees are all alike-just plain stupid-and not worthy of a good lynching...