Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggle against lynch law was won, the N.A.A.C.P. could give top priority to another drive-against segregated education. By deliberate decision, the organization made that assault not so much in the press, or on the streets, or in the lobbies of Congress, but in the courts. N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall pleaded the cause of school integration before the Supreme Court, was upheld in the historic decision of 1954-and in the minds of many Negroes at the time, that decision opened the way to real racial equality...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has become the nation's biggest (400,000 members in 1,200 chapters), best-known civil rights organization. For years it fought the Negro's battles in the courts, achieved its greatest triumph in 1954 after its special counsel, Thurgood Marshall, now a federal appellate judge, successfully argued for the Supreme Court's historic school desegregation decision...
...Thurgood Marshall, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. LL.D...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR ROSWELL MAGILL THURGOOD MARSHALL JOSEPH W. MARTIN JR. WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN JR. LOUIS MARX KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA BILL MAULDIN
...fill the first vacancy on the Supreme Court, Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis-a "deeply respected former judge who would bring the highest tribunal an understanding of the racial problem in the South that has too long been missing." To fill the second vacancy, William Hastie or Thurgood Marshall, both circuit judges and both Negroes, "to give the court a balance of understanding on the other side of the racial problem...