Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This series of covers devoted to searching inquiries into the many aspects of the civil rights crisis-as seen from the North, the South and the middle-has included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
...achieved. The Anglo-Catholic publication American Church News denounced the vote as "an outrageous usurpation by the laity of the teaching function of the church," and as a slap at the "hundreds of courageous priests who have joined in the most significant social revolution of our time." Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, first Negro to represent the Diocese of New York at the General Convention, thought so too. He walked out of the House of Deputies and went home...
Revolutionary Counsel. Now proudly independent, the Inc. Fund grew out of the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal victories of the late 1930s, which were largely the work of two brilliant Negro lawyers, Charles Houston and young Thurgood Marshall. On a budget of less than $10,000 a year, their office a car speeding from court to court, Houston and Marshall won a key desegregation case against the University of Missouri Law School in 1938, and suddenly the N.A.A.C.P. was deluged with a flood of new cases to try. To raise cash, it spun off the legal fund...
Other predictions: Adlai Stevenson, Thurgood Marshall, Jose Figueres, Philip Hofer, Whitney Young, Mark Rothko, Wilmarth Lewis, Mary I. Bunting, Krister Stendahl, Donald R. Griffin, George Beadle Alfred H. Barr, Leonard Baskin, Archibald Cox, Paul Nitze, Alfred A. Knopf, Walter Muir Whitehill, and Clifford K. Shipton...
...American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction, and Dr. Albert Sabin, 57, who developed the oral polio vaccine, both...