Word: thurgood
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...secret around Washington that Lyndon Johnson would like to become the first President to appoint a Negro to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, Johnson did the next thing to it when he named Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 57, to the prestigious post of U.S. Solicitor General. Marshall will replace Archibald Cox, 53, a former Harvard Law School professor who is resigning after four years of Government service...
...retirement was announced Tuesday by President Johnson, who nominated Thurgood Marshall to be his successor. Marshall will become the first Negro to serve as solicitor general...
Martin Luther King could knock off two categories at once--three, if his Christian names are any indication of his ancestry. Others up for grabs are Edward Brooke, Attorney General of the Commonwealth; Thurgood Marshall. United States Judge for the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Marian Anderson; Constance Baker Motley, president of the borough of Manhattan; Sonny Liston, recently retired; and Warren G. Harding...
...When asked whether the nonviolent civil rights demonstrators were not on occasion guilty of defying the law even as members of the white Citizens Council defy it, Judge Thurgood Marshall replied (roughly) as follows: "When civil rights demonstrators break the law to protest against an unjust social order, they are willing to pay the price-to go to jail if necessary-in order to witness to what they believe in. I wonder if the members of the white Citizens Councils are willing to do the same?" The tradition of civil disobedience in our country is an old one. When Henry...
...Chapel. Despite the federal court order, sentiment was strongly in favor of marching. A white minister arose to declare: "No matter what happens, we can never get away from Selma, Alabama, again-never!" Princeton University's Religion Professor Malcolm Diamond announced that he would march, quoted Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, a Negro, as once having said, "I am not defying the sovereignty of my country. I am making witness within the framework of the law of my country...