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...Affirmative action was never a very elegant solution to the problem of racial injustice. In fact, Gewirtz-who clerked for the civil rights legend Justice Thurgood Marshall-remembers that Marshall was opposed to making distinctions by race, and had his doubts about racial preferences. But Marshall overcame his doubts, and affirmative action became part of the fabric of American society. On the plus side, a generation of minority and women college graduates has entered the workforce, creating a significant black middle class and a more integrated society. But the price has been resentment, especially in the white working class...
...Halberstam, who took him to a World Series game in 2004. After graduating cum-laude from Harvard College, Freedman briefly attended Harvard Law School before dropping out. He eventually received his law degree from Yale, and went on to clerk for then-U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall, who became a lifelong friend, according to his son. After practicing law for a year in New York, he joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1964 and was named dean 15 years later, according to the press release. In 1982 he left for the University...
...Dlay, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and as Cameron, the movie director on the receiving end of racism in Crash, has earned him offers to play, he says, "a million different villains" as well as every black luminary with a biopic in the works: Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Rick James. Howard calls the attention "overwhelming. Because you know you haven't done anything different. You start becoming real superstitious?you don't know what it is, and you don't know when it will go away...
Freshman Andrew Flanagan (157 lbs.) won two matches for Harvard, one against Gene Zannetti of Penn and the other against Tyler Thurgood of Columbia, before he defaulted. Sophomore Jonathan Butler and freshman Thomas Picarsic both garnered a victory each. Also playing in the tournament were sophomore Matt Button, senior Mike Baria and freshman Wesley Walker...
...federal bench, by Lyndon Johnson in 1966, she received funds for college after a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, heard the then teenager speak at a community center. As a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she worked for two decades, she assisted Thurgood Marshall in preparing the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, and, following that 1954 ruling, took on what she called the "second civil war." Of the 10 school desegregation cases she argued before the Supreme Court, she won nine, among them James Meredith's high-profile fight to attend...