Word: thurgood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed on the Union Jack atop the flagpole, cheered ten seconds later as a new green, white and blue flag fluttered in its place. At that moment, little Sierra Leone...
...school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard-trained Attorney Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court. Nabrit helped win the ruling against public-school segregation...
While the delegates engulfed each other with long speeches, U.S. Lawyer Thurgood Marshall was hard at work behind the scenes. On leave from the N.A.A.C.P. as special adviser to the 14 elected African members of the conference, Marshall had taken on the task of drafting constitutional safeguards that will convince Kenya's 270,000 Asians, Arabs and Europeans that they will not lose their rights when the country passes into the control of its 6,000,000 Africans...
...entered the room for his formal opening speech, the chairs of the 14 elected African members were empty. Dryly extending his welcome to "those of you who are here," Macleod quickly explained what had happened. The African elected members had requested a second special adviser. Their first adviser is Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Negro lawyer who pleaded the antisegregation cases of the N.A.A.C.P. before the Supreme Court. The suggested second adviser: Peter Mbiyu Koinange, 53, one of 30 children of a Kikuyu chieftain, one of the first Africans to win U.S. scholarships, educated in the '20s (Hampton Institute, Ohio...
...European delegates would consider it the beginning of a cave-in before an African show of force. Macleod's solution: Koinange and other delegation advisers would not sit in on the conference but could be admitted to the committee rooms of each delegation. It satisfied no one. Thurgood Marshall fumed: "What can I do in some separate room, play pinochle? If I'm not in the conference room, I can't see the fast ones coming." The white settlers flatly opposed Koinange's presence anywhere in Lancaster House...