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...scene might have been a Southern county courthouse in the bad old days, with a white registrar administering a literacy test designed to confound even the best-educated Negro. Actually, the setting was a U.S. Senate chamber, and the Negro was Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who seeks to vote not in a Southern election but as an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...solid technical competence, but her work shows an excessively smooth slickness that I find somewhat distasteful. Her subjects are Mary McLeod Bethune (1876-1955), celebrated educator and social worker; Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), the developer of blood plasma; Paul Robeson in his role as Othello; and Thurgood Marshall, who has just been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place," declared Lyndon Johnson, blinking in the bright sunlight of the White House Rose Garden. Thus, in a move that had been freely forecast but still represented a historic appointment, the President named Thurgood Marshall, 58, great-grandson of a Maryland slave, to be the first Negro Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
Beatification. If Thurgood Marshall's qualifications for the Supreme Court were unimpeachable, his selection was also politically astute-an act of official beatification that brought cheers from virtually every segment of the civil rights spectrum and should earn the Administration points among disenchanted Negro voters in next year's elections. "This has stirred pride in the breast of every black American," said Floyd McKissick, combative director of the Congress of Racial Equality...
When the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court last fall, the California decision was endorsed by the state attorney general as well as by U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who argued that Section 26 "is an exercise of state power in support of discrimination." He felt that it was particularly dangerous because it was not enacted as a simple statute, but was embodied in the state constitution. To put it there, Californians resorted to the basic democratic principle of initiative and referendum. To remove it would take a similar referendum, and in the present-day U.S., argued Marshall...