Word: thurgood
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...Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus, ex-Pullman Porter Hildrus A. Poindexter, is a ranking authority on tropical diseases; N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930; a year before, Lincoln produced Poet Langston Hughes...
...Thurgood Marshall, chief council for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will deliver the keynote address today at a conference of the New England Region of the National Students Association. The meeting will take place in New Lecture Hall...
...THURGOOD MARSHALL, 45, who ranked No. 1 in his law-school class ('33) at all-Negro Howard University in Washington, D.C., used to cut classes regularly-whenever John W. Davis came to town. Recalls Marshall: "Every time John Davis argued, I'd ask myself, 'Will I ever, ever . . .?' and every time I had to answer, 'No, never.' " Nowadays Marshall, officially special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and unofficially (to the Negro press) "Mr. Civil Rights," has his own Howard cheering section. But, though he thinks John Davis...
Finder's Rights. Thurgood (short for Thoroughgood) Marshall was born in Baltimore. His father was a country-club steward; his mother is a teacher in the segregated public schools there...
Young Marshall went to Jim Crow public schools himself, then to Pennsylvania's private, predominantly Negro, Lincoln University. On the side. he worked as grocery clerk, dining-car waiter, baker. His father wanted Thurgood to study law; no law school in Maryland would accept a Negro...