Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely was the nominee's race mentioned, though it was largely the point at issue. Instead, Southern critics like South Carolina's Strom Thurmond argued abstractly that Thurgood Marshall's "activist" legal outlook disqualified him for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court...
...scene might have been a Southern county courthouse in the bad old days, with a white registrar administering a literacy test designed to confound even the best-educated Negro. Actually, the setting was a U.S. Senate chamber, and the Negro was Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who seeks to vote not in a Southern election but as an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...papers are full of names, names, names. Heroes of the moment-Thurgood Marshall or the first Negro astronaut-rare played up, but so are ordinary people. The papers are running a lot of stories about Negro servicemen in Viet Nam (few of the papers oppose the U. S. involvement). "They can return with or without the Medal of Honor," says Chicago Defender Reporter Betty Washington. "We don't care. They're our people." When Amsterdam News Education Reporter Sara Slack writes up some child's achievement in school, she often mentions the occupation of the child...
...solid technical competence, but her work shows an excessively smooth slickness that I find somewhat distasteful. Her subjects are Mary McLeod Bethune (1876-1955), celebrated educator and social worker; Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), the developer of blood plasma; Paul Robeson in his role as Othello; and Thurgood Marshall, who has just been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Beatification. If Thurgood Marshall's qualifications for the Supreme Court were unimpeachable, his selection was also politically astute-an act of official beatification that brought cheers from virtually every segment of the civil rights spectrum and should earn the Administration points among disenchanted Negro voters in next year's elections. "This has stirred pride in the breast of every black American," said Floyd McKissick, combative director of the Congress of Racial Equality...