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...very much interested in your Sept. 19 article on Thurgood Marshall, and was equally interested to read the rather predictable letters [Oct. 17 et seq.,] in rebuttal. I recently had the opportunity to hear Marshall when he spoke before the Virginia Convention of the N.A.A.C.P. here. I am not a member of the N.A.A.C.P., nor do I agree with many of their methods. I am a Southerner by heritage, by upbringing and by choice. I was, therefore, somewhat surprised to find myself in agreement with Thurgood Marshall. He pointed out that the Supreme Court has determined that segregation in schools...
After graduating from HLS in 1986, Kagan clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced with the Washington firm that handled former President Clinton’s impeachment defense...
...morning fifty years ago today that Brown v. Board of Education was decided, Thurgood Marshall and many of the lawyers from his legal team sat nervously in the Supreme Court chamber. The lead counsel on the case, Robert Carter, whose name appeared just above Marshall's on the legal briefs, remained in New York City. He would hear about the unanimous decision by a phone call from his overjoyed team. By then, Carter was already looking ahead. "I don't think I can say I was ecstatic," Carter noted recently in the Newsletter of the Federal Courts. "Thurgood and many...
...daughter to an all-white school closer to their home. Now a national historic site, Monroe is also the future home of the educational Brown Foundation, run by Linda and her younger sister Cheryl, which awards scholarships and publishes literature commemorating the case. Not far away is the Thurgood Marshall Bridge, namesake of the N.A.A.C.P. special counsel who won the case and later served as a Supreme Court Justice. But other vestiges of that time have been wiped away. Although blacks and whites still live largely apart on opposite sides of town, the city recently elected its first black mayor...
Kennedy said that “at a time when blacks were never called Mister...Thurgood Marshall was always Mister Marshall...