Word: thurgood
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...with those of 53 surrounding districts. In 1974 the Supreme Court struck down that order, holding in Milliken v. Bradley that suburban districts could not be ordered to help desegregate a city's schools unless those suburbs had been involved in illegally segregating them in the first place. Justice Thurgood Marshall warned in dissent that the court had set a course that would allow "our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities--one white, the other black...
...BEEN ALMOST 47 YEARS SINCE a black man named Heman Sweatt and his lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, brought a case before the Supreme Court that forcibly integrated the University of Texas. So it was oddly appropriate last week that the University of Texas at Austin was once again the defendant in a sweeping, precedent-setting court ruling on the subject of race. This time, though, the university was chastised for promoting racial diversity, not racial exclusion...
...black and white, deserve better than this. In every previous generation, black America has produced leaders who brought out the best in their countrymen--people like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall and, of course, King, who broadened the American Dream by insisting that it applied in equal measure to everyone. Farrakhan and Chavis would substitute a cramped and insular nightmare for that all-encompassing and inspiring vision. Any march they lead is bound to be a journey to nowhere...
Coleman, a protege of Justice Thurgood Marshall, wrote legal briefs for Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which "separate but equal" racial segregation was declared unconstitutional...
...good that the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., and other African Americans have finally recognized Thomas for what he is, but where were they during the confirmation hearings? Many prominent blacks were well aware that Thomas was unfit to follow in Thurgood Marshall's footsteps; very few had the temerity to come out and say it. If Justice Marshall could see who is occupying the seat on the Supreme Court that he held so honorably, he would be spinning in his grave. JUDY LIND Riverdale, New York...