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Phyllis Wallace, the pioneering economist, Reginald Lewis, the financier and philanthropist, Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Ashe, and John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie...
...have fought and do fight to eliminate the vestiges of racism in the society. Looking back at the life of Phyllis Wallace and Arthur Ashe, for example, it's clear that, albeit differences of personality, they were every bit as racially aware and committed to pushing racial change as Thurgood Marshall. And who will argue that Dizzy, among his many achievements, did not contribute to the advancement of Black America...
...Black intelligentsia in any given period would in fact pick-up some facet of one's ethnic relatedness. Which is to say, for example, that some-but-not-all Black lawyers would do this (e.g. the Harvard-trained William Hastie and Charles Houston, the Howard University-trained Thurgood Marshall, the Yale-trained Marian Edelman); that some Black humanities scholars would do this (e.g. the Harvard-trained W.E.B. DuBois, the Bates College-trained Peter Gomes, the Yale-trained Henry Louis Gates); and that some Black political scientists would do this (e.g. the Harvard-trained Ralph J. Bunche, the Chicago-trained Charles...
BOSTON--Two Harvard, Law School professors praised the personal qualities of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to a crowd of 400 yesterday at Fanueil Hall...
Lewis also stressed the importance of Marshall's work to American society. Asking the audience to consider Marshall's influence on landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Lewis said, "This would be a different America if Thurgood Marshall had not lived...