Thurgood Marshall

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On this date in 1967 the United States of America changed-----changed for the better... forever.

The Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as Supreme Court justice, Aug. 30, 1967... and today-----today racist Southern segregationists and other bigots are still trying and failing to overturn and/or do end runs around Thurgood Marshall's legacy.


Thurgood Marshall timeline:

1930
Mr. Marshall graduates with honors from Lincoln U. (cum laude)

1933
Receives law degree from Howard U. (magna cum laude); begins private
practice in Baltimore

1934
Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP

1935
With Charles Houston, wins first major civil rights case, Murray v.
Pearson

1936
Becomes assistant special counsel for NAACP in New York

1940
Wins first of 29 Supreme Court victories (Chambers v. Florida)

1944
Successfully argues Smith v. Allwright, overthrowing the South's
"white primary"

1948
Wins Shelley v. Kraemer, in which Supreme Court strikes down legality
of racially restrictive covenants

1950
Wins Supreme Court victories in two graduate-school integration
cases, Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

1951
Visits South Korea and Japan to investigate charges of racism in U.S.
armed forces. He reported that the general practice was one of "rigid
segregation".

1954
Wins Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, landmark case that
demolishes legal basis for segregation in America

1961
Defends civil rights demonstrators, winning Supreme Circuit Court
victory in Garner v. Louisiana; nominated to Second Court of Appeals
by President J.F. Kennedy

1961
Appointed circuit judge, makes 112 rulings, all of them later upheld
by Supreme Court (1961-1965)

1965
Appointed U.S. solicitor general by President Lyndon Johnson; wins 14
of the 19 cases he argues for the government (1965-1967)

1967
Becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court
(1967-1991)

1991
Retires from the Supreme Court

1993
Dies at 84


Remembering Thurgood Marshall and fighting to ensure the future of the Supreme Court
byDenise Oliver Velez
Sun Aug 30, 2015

attribution: Yoichi R Okamoto, National Archives and Records Administration
Thurgood Marshall, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.​

It was 48 years ago today that the U.S. Senate confirmed President Lyndon Baines Johnson's nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Thurgood Marshall was a distinguished civil rights lawyer who had been serving as solicitor general for two years when Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned in June 1967. President Lyndon Johnson, a friend of Marshall and a strong supporter of civil rights, was looking to choose a black man, but worried that Marshall would face a difficult confirmation hearing. He considered other candidates with lower profiles, but former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach urged against it. “Mr. President, if you appoint anybody, any black to that court but Thurgood Marshall, you are insulting every black in the country,” he said. “Thurgood is the black lawyer as far as blacks are concerned—I mean there can’t be any doubt about that.”
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Marshall faced opposition from segregationists in the Senate, who searched for dirt in his past while his confirmation hearing was delayed for two months. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., asked FBI director J. Edgar Hoover if Marshall had any connections to communism.
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On Aug. 30, Marshall was confirmed by a vote of 69 to 11, with 20 senators, mostly Southern Democrats, abstaining. Two days later, in a private ceremony with Justice Hugo Black, Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, officially becoming the 96th man and first African-American to hold the position.

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On this date in 1967 the United States of America changed-----changed for the better... forever.

The Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as Supreme Court justice, Aug. 30, 1967... and today-----today racist Southern segregationists and other bigots are still trying and failing to overturn and/or do end runs around Thurgood Marshall's legacy.


Thurgood Marshall timeline:

1930
Mr. Marshall graduates with honors from Lincoln U. (cum laude)

1933
Receives law degree from Howard U. (magna cum laude); begins private
practice in Baltimore

1934
Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP

1935
With Charles Houston, wins first major civil rights case, Murray v.
Pearson

1936
Becomes assistant special counsel for NAACP in New York

1940
Wins first of 29 Supreme Court victories (Chambers v. Florida)

1944
Successfully argues Smith v. Allwright, overthrowing the South's
"white primary"

1948
Wins Shelley v. Kraemer, in which Supreme Court strikes down legality
of racially restrictive covenants

1950
Wins Supreme Court victories in two graduate-school integration
cases, Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

1951
Visits South Korea and Japan to investigate charges of racism in U.S.
armed forces. He reported that the general practice was one of "rigid
segregation".

1954
Wins Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, landmark case that
demolishes legal basis for segregation in America

1961
Defends civil rights demonstrators, winning Supreme Circuit Court
victory in Garner v. Louisiana; nominated to Second Court of Appeals
by President J.F. Kennedy

1961
Appointed circuit judge, makes 112 rulings, all of them later upheld
by Supreme Court (1961-1965)

1965
Appointed U.S. solicitor general by President Lyndon Johnson; wins 14
of the 19 cases he argues for the government (1965-1967)

1967
Becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court
(1967-1991)

1991
Retires from the Supreme Court

1993
Dies at 84


Remembering Thurgood Marshall and fighting to ensure the future of the Supreme Court
byDenise Oliver Velez
Sun Aug 30, 2015

attribution: Yoichi R Okamoto, National Archives and Records Administration
Thurgood Marshall, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.​

It was 48 years ago today that the U.S. Senate confirmed President Lyndon Baines Johnson's nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Thurgood Marshall was a distinguished civil rights lawyer who had been serving as solicitor general for two years when Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned in June 1967. President Lyndon Johnson, a friend of Marshall and a strong supporter of civil rights, was looking to choose a black man, but worried that Marshall would face a difficult confirmation hearing. He considered other candidates with lower profiles, but former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach urged against it. “Mr. President, if you appoint anybody, any black to that court but Thurgood Marshall, you are insulting every black in the country,” he said. “Thurgood is the black lawyer as far as blacks are concerned—I mean there can’t be any doubt about that.”
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Marshall faced opposition from segregationists in the Senate, who searched for dirt in his past while his confirmation hearing was delayed for two months. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., asked FBI director J. Edgar Hoover if Marshall had any connections to communism.
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On Aug. 30, Marshall was confirmed by a vote of 69 to 11, with 20 senators, mostly Southern Democrats, abstaining. Two days later, in a private ceremony with Justice Hugo Black, Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, officially becoming the 96th man and first African-American to hold the position.

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I once got into a shove match with Sheriff Dave Reichert over the tactics he used against an innocent man during the Green River Killer investigation. Reichert, now a congressman from WA. State felt it was legal for him to "sweat" a guy because he knew - got that, Reichert "knew that guy is guilty, I just can't prove it - yet!

That innocent guy's wife divorced him, he wasn't allowed to visit his children unescorted, he was fired from his job and finally committed suicide - all because King County's top cop "knew" he was guilty. But the thing we got into a minor shove match about is, the top cop and future lawmaker in the 13th most populous county in the country didn't know it was against the law to "sweat" someone to get a confession... is illegal.

Illegal, thanks to Thurgood Marshall.

Chambers v. Florida (1940)​

As Marshall traveled in the deep South during the 1930s, he came to realize how unfair the criminal justice was for blacks. White policemen instituted a number of cruel and terrifying methods of forcing confessions out of black defendants, most commonly through beatings . Marshall argued a case known as Chambers v. Florida (1940), which was one of the cases demonstrating police brutality and violation of the due process laws. He lost the case in the local courts but won in the Supreme Court, where the decision was overturned because the use of a coerced confession was obvious. Marshall and his staff at the NAACP used the Chambers decision to reverse many other convictions that were based on coerced confessions.

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On this date in 1967 the United States of America changed-----changed for the better... forever.

The Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as Supreme Court justice, Aug. 30, 1967... and today-----today racist Southern segregationists and other bigots are still trying and failing to overturn and/or do end runs around Thurgood Marshall's legacy.


Thurgood Marshall timeline:

1930
Mr. Marshall graduates with honors from Lincoln U. (cum laude)

1933
Receives law degree from Howard U. (magna cum laude); begins private
practice in Baltimore

1934
Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP

1935
With Charles Houston, wins first major civil rights case, Murray v.
Pearson

1936
Becomes assistant special counsel for NAACP in New York

1940
Wins first of 29 Supreme Court victories (Chambers v. Florida)

1944
Successfully argues Smith v. Allwright, overthrowing the South's
"white primary"

1948
Wins Shelley v. Kraemer, in which Supreme Court strikes down legality
of racially restrictive covenants

1950
Wins Supreme Court victories in two graduate-school integration
cases, Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

1951
Visits South Korea and Japan to investigate charges of racism in U.S.
armed forces. He reported that the general practice was one of "rigid
segregation".

1954
Wins Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, landmark case that
demolishes legal basis for segregation in America

1961
Defends civil rights demonstrators, winning Supreme Circuit Court
victory in Garner v. Louisiana; nominated to Second Court of Appeals
by President J.F. Kennedy

1961
Appointed circuit judge, makes 112 rulings, all of them later upheld
by Supreme Court (1961-1965)

1965
Appointed U.S. solicitor general by President Lyndon Johnson; wins 14
of the 19 cases he argues for the government (1965-1967)

1967
Becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court
(1967-1991)

1991
Retires from the Supreme Court

1993
Dies at 84


Remembering Thurgood Marshall and fighting to ensure the future of the Supreme Court
byDenise Oliver Velez
Sun Aug 30, 2015

attribution: Yoichi R Okamoto, National Archives and Records Administration
Thurgood Marshall, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.​

It was 48 years ago today that the U.S. Senate confirmed President Lyndon Baines Johnson's nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Thurgood Marshall was a distinguished civil rights lawyer who had been serving as solicitor general for two years when Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned in June 1967. President Lyndon Johnson, a friend of Marshall and a strong supporter of civil rights, was looking to choose a black man, but worried that Marshall would face a difficult confirmation hearing. He considered other candidates with lower profiles, but former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach urged against it. “Mr. President, if you appoint anybody, any black to that court but Thurgood Marshall, you are insulting every black in the country,” he said. “Thurgood is the black lawyer as far as blacks are concerned—I mean there can’t be any doubt about that.”
...
Marshall faced opposition from segregationists in the Senate, who searched for dirt in his past while his confirmation hearing was delayed for two months. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., asked FBI director J. Edgar Hoover if Marshall had any connections to communism.
...
On Aug. 30, Marshall was confirmed by a vote of 69 to 11, with 20 senators, mostly Southern Democrats, abstaining. Two days later, in a private ceremony with Justice Hugo Black, Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, officially becoming the 96th man and first African-American to hold the position.

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THURGOOD MARSHALL WAS LOW LIFE SCUMBAG.

HE REFUSED TO READ THE BRIEFS FILED BY ALLEGED DRUG DEALERS BUT WOULD HAVE BEEN FURIOUS IF HIS WHITE BRETHREN HAD REFUSED TO READ THE BRIEFS FILED BY BLACK DEFENDANTS. A HYPOCRITE INDEED.

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and today-----today racist Southern segregationists and other bigots are still trying and failing to overturn and/or do end runs around Thurgood Marshall's legacy.
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[CrusaderFrank]

"Son, when I appoint a ****** to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ******." -- LBJ to his staff describing when he picked an intellectual flyweight mike Marshall for SCOTUS

On the Way With L.B.J.

 

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"Son, when I appoint a ****** to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ******." -- LBJ to his staff describing when he picked an intellectual flyweight mike Marshall for SCOTUS

On the Way With L.B.J.

So what?
Is your post your lame attempt at being politically correct?

I grew up in Seattle but my family is from West Texas. My Dad was killed when I was nine, for the next 7 years I spent a good chunk of my summers in various parts of West Texas. In West Texas, in the '50's and '60's the use of the "N" word was as normal as a West Texas dust storm.

When the vote was taken to confirm the first African-American Supreme Court Justice 20 mostly Southern Conservative Democrats chose not to vote. Why? - the very egotistical LBJ told the Southern Dems that were poised to vote "No" that he had passed the voting rights act just two years earlier and if the Southern Conservative Dems didn't abstain he wouldn't support them with the brand new large African-American voting block and-----and LBJ was damn proud that his legacy would include the first African-American on the Supreme Court - hence... LBJ wanted everyone to know it.

I doubt LBJ ever used the term African-American but-----but I'm certain his West Texas dialect included the "N" word.
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