Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People L.H.D...
...boldness and bravery of the Freedom Riders won over most of the old-line, conservative Negro leaders, leaving only a few doubters, who were shrugged off by the students as "Uncle Toms." "These kids are serving notice on us that we're moving too slow," said Thurgood Marshall, the N.A.A.C.P. lawyer who won the school segregation case. "They're not content with all this talking." Said Martin Luther King: "I think all of this is unfortunate, but I think it is a psychological turning point in our whole struggle, just as Little Rock was a turning point...
...regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed on the Union Jack atop the flagpole, cheered ten seconds later as a new green, white and blue flag fluttered in its place. At that moment, little Sierra Leone...
...school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard-trained Attorney Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court. Nabrit helped win the ruling against public-school segregation...
While the delegates engulfed each other with long speeches, U.S. Lawyer Thurgood Marshall was hard at work behind the scenes. On leave from the N.A.A.C.P. as special adviser to the 14 elected African members of the conference, Marshall had taken on the task of drafting constitutional safeguards that will convince Kenya's 270,000 Asians, Arabs and Europeans that they will not lose their rights when the country passes into the control of its 6,000,000 Africans...