Word: thurgood
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...Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays of the month at the U Street/ Cardozo Metro station at 13th and U streets...
...Justice William O. Douglas. Brennan has never relinquished the role. A dedicated pragmatist, the onetime New Jersey labor lawyer now uses his negotiating skills to bring the shifting middle of the court--Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Byron White--closer to the liberal corner that he shares with Thurgood Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely to be asked, "Would you be happier if the standard were phrased this way?" If, as often happens, he is seeking Powell's fifth vote, recalls a former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep...
...very much interested in your Sept. 19 article on Thurgood Marshall, and was equally interested to read the rather predictable letters [Oct. 17 et seq.,] in rebuttal. I recently had the opportunity to hear Marshall when he spoke before the Virginia Convention of the N.A.A.C.P. here. I am not a member of the N.A.A.C.P., nor do I agree with many of their methods. I am a Southerner by heritage, by upbringing and by choice. I was, therefore, somewhat surprised to find myself in agreement with Thurgood Marshall. He pointed out that the Supreme Court has determined that segregation in schools...
After graduating from HLS in 1986, Kagan clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced with the Washington firm that handled former President Clinton’s impeachment defense...
...morning fifty years ago today that Brown v. Board of Education was decided, Thurgood Marshall and many of the lawyers from his legal team sat nervously in the Supreme Court chamber. The lead counsel on the case, Robert Carter, whose name appeared just above Marshall's on the legal briefs, remained in New York City. He would hear about the unanimous decision by a phone call from his overjoyed team. By then, Carter was already looking ahead. "I don't think I can say I was ecstatic," Carter noted recently in the Newsletter of the Federal Courts. "Thurgood and many...