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...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has become the nation's biggest (400,000 members in 1,200 chapters), best-known civil rights organization. For years it fought the Negro's battles in the courts, achieved its greatest triumph in 1954 after its special counsel, Thurgood Marshall, now a federal appellate judge, successfully argued for the Supreme Court's historic school desegregation decision...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR ROSWELL MAGILL THURGOOD MARSHALL JOSEPH W. MARTIN JR. WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN JR. LOUIS MARX KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA BILL MAULDIN
...fill the first vacancy on the Supreme Court, Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis-a "deeply respected former judge who would bring the highest tribunal an understanding of the racial problem in the South that has too long been missing." To fill the second vacancy, William Hastie or Thurgood Marshall, both circuit judges and both Negroes, "to give the court a balance of understanding on the other side of the racial problem...
...Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. "Now responsibility and fairness will render the decision.'' After four months of sporadic hearings before a judiciary subcommittee headed by South Carolina's Olin Johnston, the Senate confirmed the appointment of a controversial Negro to the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is Thurgood Marshall, 54, longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who has been sitting as a Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) judge since his nomination by President Kennedy a year ago. The Senate vote was 54 to 16, with all the nays coming from...
...enthusiastically nominated by President Kennedy, certified as "well qualified" by the American Bar Association, endorsed by the overwhelming majority of Senators of both parties. Yet for nearly a year the Senate has dillydallied over the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall as a judge on the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). Why? Because a handful of Southern Senators object to Marshall as the longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the man who successfully argued the 1954 school integration case before the Supreme Court...