Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entered the room for his formal opening speech, the chairs of the 14 elected African members were empty. Dryly extending his welcome to "those of you who are here," Macleod quickly explained what had happened. The African elected members had requested a second special adviser. Their first adviser is Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Negro lawyer who pleaded the antisegregation cases of the N.A.A.C.P. before the Supreme Court. The suggested second adviser: Peter Mbiyu Koinange, 53, one of 30 children of a Kikuyu chieftain, one of the first Africans to win U.S. scholarships, educated in the '20s (Hampton Institute, Ohio...
...European delegates would consider it the beginning of a cave-in before an African show of force. Macleod's solution: Koinange and other delegation advisers would not sit in on the conference but could be admitted to the committee rooms of each delegation. It satisfied no one. Thurgood Marshall fumed: "What can I do in some separate room, play pinochle? If I'm not in the conference room, I can't see the fast ones coming." The white settlers flatly opposed Koinange's presence anywhere in Lancaster House...
...Mboya's elbow during the talks will be Thurgood Marshall, general counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., who flew to Kenya from the U.S. to advise on tactics. Kenya's white settler extremists firmly reject the idea of an African government and insist that Britain remain in control indefinitely. Last week Governor Sir Patrick Renison signed a red-ribboned document formally ending the seven-year Mau Mau state of emergency. In Nairobi's African locations, thousands of natives celebrated on a native beer called pombe, and burned the hated identification passbooks they have had to carry...