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...Senator Estes Kefauver, got mentioned in one list or another. Many guessers supposed that Kennedy would succumb to political temptation and appoint a Negro-among those mentioned were Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William Hastie, Housing Administrator Robert Weaver, and Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...
...courts moved two of the nation's most widely known men of law. The court: the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont and which was long graced by the presence of the late Learned Hand and his cousin Augustus. The men: Thurgood Marshall, longtime special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (TIME cover, Sept. 19, 1955), and U.S. District Court Judge Irving R. Kaufman...
...Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People L.H.D...
...boldness and bravery of the Freedom Riders won over most of the old-line, conservative Negro leaders, leaving only a few doubters, who were shrugged off by the students as "Uncle Toms." "These kids are serving notice on us that we're moving too slow," said Thurgood Marshall, the N.A.A.C.P. lawyer who won the school segregation case. "They're not content with all this talking." Said Martin Luther King: "I think all of this is unfortunate, but I think it is a psychological turning point in our whole struggle, just as Little Rock was a turning point...