Word: thurgood
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...daughter to an all-white school closer to their home. Now a national historic site, Monroe is also the future home of the educational Brown Foundation, run by Linda and her younger sister Cheryl, which awards scholarships and publishes literature commemorating the case. Not far away is the Thurgood Marshall Bridge, namesake of the N.A.A.C.P. special counsel who won the case and later served as a Supreme Court Justice. But other vestiges of that time have been wiped away. Although blacks and whites still live largely apart on opposite sides of town, the city recently elected its first black mayor...
...group of Harvard Law School (HLS) professors who clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall joined University President Lawrence H. Summers last night to discuss Marshall’s legacy on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education...
Kennedy said that “at a time when blacks were never called Mister...Thurgood Marshall was always Mister Marshall...
When one audience member asked about the merits of Marshall’s argument, Klarman said, “Marshall was a one-man law firm...I am a big fan of Thurgood Marshall, but I don’t think the argument had a large impact on the outcome...
...continues its Brown celebration today with a panel discussion in Ames Courtroom titled, “Reflections on the Jurisprudence of Justice Thurgood Marshall: A View from His Law Clerks.” The panel will feature nine HLS faculty members who clerked for Marshall. University President Lawrence H. Summers will deliver opening remarks...