Word: thurgood
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...standards, whether acceptable or not, were at least precisely stated. That was not so in the companion case of a Dallas ordinance that sought to bar juveniles under 16 from movies found unsuitable by a local board of censors. Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall found that the standards to be applied under the ordinance were unconstitutionally vague. Dallas and other communities may now pattern their laws after the New York statute upheld in Ginsberg, but even that decision leaves a large question unanswered. It is now all right to ban certain materials for children...
Instead of one pre-eminent Negro spokesman like King-or two or three like Walter White, Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall in the '40s and early '50s-there are dozens today, each speaking for Negroes in his own area or in his own economic or social sphere. A nationwide attack on poverty or discrimination may be doomed to failure, but an assault on a specific or local ill may very well prove to be successful. A few of the militants, points out Harvard Government Professor Martin Kilson, are discovering the meaning of quid pro quo-and gaining meaningful...
...strange man," noted Columnist James J. Kilpatrick, longtime editor of the Richmond News Leader, "the hardest of all the Negro leaders or a reporter to get to know. It was possible to joke with Thurgood Marshall, philosophize with Roy Wilkins, reminisce with James Farmer, but King remained an impenetrable figure. His faintly Oriental face was a calm mask for the tensions that surged unceasingly within him. Yet he was the bravest man I ever knew in public life. During the terrible days that followed upon the school desegregation ruling, no white Southerner ever matched a fraction of his courage...
...mind in two cases. On both, the justices deadlocked 4 to 4, which meant that the court affirmed the lower court without ruling on the merits.* Such ties do not happen often, but there have now been four this term. The reason is that the newest justice, Thurgood Marshall, has had to disqualify himself from almost every case decided...
Spong defends his seemingly conservative voting record by pointing out that most Senate votes are routine and that he has opposed Byrd on several important rollcalls. Their most notable splits have been over confirmation of Justice Thurgood Marshall, ratification of the Soviet consular treaty, raising the debt limit, and keeping Head Start in the poverty program...