Word: thurgood
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...suspect, has any doubt about where this issue is going. When opponents of gay rights talk ominously about a "gay agenda," they are not completely wrong. There has been an agenda in the sense of a long-term strategy, not unlike the carefully plotted strategy of Thurgood Marshall and others in the civil rights movement that ended formal racial segregation. It was a brilliant decision to start with the military rather than attempt to outlaw discrimination generally or push right away for gay marriage. Twenty years from now, maybe sooner, gays will have...
After graduating in 1986, Kagan clerked for two renowned liberal jurists: Abner J. Mikva, an appeals court judge, and Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court...
...Affirmative action was never a very elegant solution to the problem of racial injustice. In fact, Gewirtz-who clerked for the civil rights legend Justice Thurgood Marshall-remembers that Marshall was opposed to making distinctions by race, and had his doubts about racial preferences. But Marshall overcame his doubts, and affirmative action became part of the fabric of American society. On the plus side, a generation of minority and women college graduates has entered the workforce, creating a significant black middle class and a more integrated society. But the price has been resentment, especially in the white working class...
...Halberstam, who took him to a World Series game in 2004. After graduating cum-laude from Harvard College, Freedman briefly attended Harvard Law School before dropping out. He eventually received his law degree from Yale, and went on to clerk for then-U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall, who became a lifelong friend, according to his son. After practicing law for a year in New York, he joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1964 and was named dean 15 years later, according to the press release. In 1982 he left for the University...
...Dlay, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and as Cameron, the movie director on the receiving end of racism in Crash, has earned him offers to play, he says, "a million different villains" as well as every black luminary with a biopic in the works: Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Rick James. Howard calls the attention "overwhelming. Because you know you haven't done anything different. You start becoming real superstitious?you don't know what it is, and you don't know when it will go away...