Word: thurgood
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...vice dean of Howard Law School, Charles H. Houston—the first African American to serve on the Harvard Law Review—trained future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Attorney Oliver Hill, according to Ogletree. Both men played pivotal roles in developing the case against "separate but equal" school facilities. Specifically, Marshall served as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which took the Brown case to the Supreme Court...
...King and Malcolm X as religious leaders are celebrated by the media and remembered, yet Thurgood Marshall did not have that impact,” Willams said...
...discussion of an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group on religion and politics with a talk entitled, “This Far By Faith and By Law: Churches and Lawyers in the struggle for racial justice” in which he contrasted two forms of social reform undertaken by Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King...
APPOINTED. ELENA KAGAN, 42, as first woman dean of Harvard Law School; in Cambridge, Mass. A teacher at Harvard since 1999, Kagan also served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and as a White House aide to President Bill Clinton...
Kagan’s impressive credentials prove her well-suited for this important position. Formerly a clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a deputy assistant to President Clinton on domestic policy, Kagan offers fresh insight and perspective in the realm of public law. With her experience both as an administrative law scholar and her time spent working in government, she is an incredibly accomplished leader in the public legal sector. Currently HLS suffers from a reputation of being too focused on corporate law, and we hope that Kagan’s leadership will encourage more...