Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hugo Black, who, like Douglas argues that the First Amendment prohibits all censorship. Justices John M. Harlan and Byron White have argued that states should be allowed greater latitude in enforcing their own standards of obscenity and Chief Justice Warren Burger agrees. The key votes could be those of Thurgood Marshall, who joined the court after Fanny Hill, and Harry Blackmun who may well be confirmed before the Maryland case is disposed...
...respectively. Of the nation's 300.000 lawyers, only 3,000 are black-one of the smallest black ratios of any U.S. profession. Of the Government's 93 U.S. Attorneys, none is black; the most recent (Cecil Poole of San Francisco) has just been replaced by a white. Thurgood Marshall sits on the Supreme Court, but of 459 federal judges, only 22 are black. Among the country's 12,000 state and city judges, only 178 are black. As for prison administration, California is a good example: 28.6% of the state's inmates are black...