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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.”
...
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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