Word: thurgood
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Speaking for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thurgood Marshall, eminent Negro constitutional lawyer, told the court that the defenders of school segregation were asking for "an inherent determination that the people who were formerly in slavery . . . shall be kept as near that stage as possible." Said the big, deep-voiced Thurgood Marshall: "Now is the time . . . that this court should make it clear that that is not what our Constitution stands...
Last spring, after reading the briefs, the high court asked the attorneys to study and discuss whether the framers and ratifiesr of the 14th Amendment meant to abolish segregation in the schools. The court got three answers. Thurgood Marshall, for the N.A.A.C.P., said that was clearly the intention. John W. Davis, for South Carolina, said that was clearly not the intention. Assistant U.S. Attorney General J. Lee Rankin said that the evidence was inconclusive, but that on other grounds, the U.S. Government favored an end of segregation...
...afford to have segregation, and the time to get rid of it is now," declared Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at last night's Law Forum in Sanders Theatre...
...speakers will be Thurgood Marshall, Special Counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Marion A. Wright, President of the Southern Regional Council, and journalist A. G. Ivey, a Nieman Fellow at the University. The moderator for the forum will be Assistant Professor William Covington Hardee of the Harvard Law School...
...Friday the Forum will present a discussion on "Can We Afford Segregation in Our Public Schools Now?" in Sanders Theatre. Thurgood Marshall, special counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., Marion Wright, President of the Southern Regional Council, and A. G. Ivey, Nieman Fellow, will be the speakers...