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Thurgood Marshall   1908-1993
 

 

 

 

Marshall announcing his retirement

from the Supreme Court at age 82 in 1991.

 

Photograph: John McDonnell

The Washington Post, via Getty Images

Anglonautes' note: check photo author.

 

What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me

He became the first Black Supreme Court justice,

and the stories he told his clerks — like me —

revealed how he helped break down America’s color line.

NYT

Published July 14, 2021    Updated July 15, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/
magazine/thurgood-marshall-stories.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marshall, center,

with his client Autherine Lucy in Birmingham, Ala.,

in 1956.

 

Photograph: Gene Herrick

Associated Press

 

What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me

He became the first Black Supreme Court justice,

and the stories he told his clerks — like me —

revealed how he helped break down America’s color line.

NYT

Published July 14, 2021    Updated July 15, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/
magazine/thurgood-marshall-stories.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From left: Thurgood Marshall,

Donald Gaines Murray and Charles Houston

preparing a desegregation case

against the University of Maryland in 1935.

 

Photograph: Library of Congress

Corbis/VCG, via Getty Images

 

What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me

He became the first Black Supreme Court justice,

and the stories he told his clerks — like me —

revealed how he helped break down America’s color line.

NYT

Published July 14, 2021    Updated July 15, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/
magazine/thurgood-marshall-stories.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thurgood Marshall    1908-1993

 

the first Black Supreme Court justice    1967-1991

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/thurgood-marshall

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/
magazine/thurgood-marshall-stories.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/
557832715/actor-chadwick-boseman-on-his-new-role-as-marshall

 

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/10/
133654401/saluting-the-legacy-of-legal-legend-thurgood-marshall

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=92144062 - July 2, 2008

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=11351940 - June 25, 2007

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=11012268 - January 13, 2007

 

https://www.npr.org/2003/12/08/
1535826/thurgood-marshall-and-brown-v-board-of-ed

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/25/
us/thurgood-marshall-civil-rights-hero-dies-at-84.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/28/
us/marshall-retires-from-high-court-blow-to-liberals.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/28/
archives/in-rare-attack-justice-marshall-says-court-erred-in-rare-attack.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/01/
archives/high-court-is-urged-by-bork-to-restore-capital-punishment.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/09/
archives/high-court-hears-3-hours-of-debate-in-nixon-cases-and-reserves-its.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/25/
archives/high-court-backs-tenant-jury-trials-in-eviction-cases.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/20/
archives/baseballs-exempt-status-upheld-by-supreme-court-high-court-upholds.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/22/
archives/high-court-upholds-dc-abortion-law-supreme-court-rules-5-to-2-that.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/14/
archives/high-court-appointee-thurgood-marshall.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/17/
archives/black-power-hurts-negro-thurgood-marshall-asserts.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/22/
archives/man-in-the-news-civil-rights-advocate-thurgood-marshall.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/08/
archives/fighter-for-his-people-thurgood-marshall.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/
unpublished-black-history/thurgood-marshall-in-harlem-episcopal-church-1962

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/28/
archives/voice-of-the-n-a-a-c-p-thurgood-marshall.html

 

 

 

 

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/
learning/general/onthisday/big/0517.html - 1954

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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