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Marshall’s Law

This is the January 1990 Washington Post Magazine cover story that Juan Williams wrote profiling the reclusive Marshall. The 81-year-old justice had served on the court for 23 years and…

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Controversial

Marshall held controversial views on several subjects. Here’s a sampling: Q: On the dissents that you do write, what do you think about the importance of dissents? A: Well much…

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Justices

Marshall’s 24 years on the high court allowed him to serve on the liberal Warren Courts as well as the increasingly conservative Burger and Rhenquist courts: ArmorLine A:You can’t name…

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Politics

Marshall spoke at length about his attitudes — how he viewed the politics of race in America and what he saw his fellow justices doing about race-based cases: ArmorLine A:…

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Presidents

Marshall personally knew every president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. Some he greatly admired, while others he held in contempt: ArmorLineOn Nixon Q: And did you have anything to…

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Malcolm

Some of the most vocal critics of Marshall were black militants, particularly the nation of Islam and its charismatic Harlem leader, Malcolm X. The Black Muslims preached racial separation –…

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Martin

Marshall won several major Supreme Court cases outlawing segregation in housing, transportation, and in 1954 won Brown v Board of Education, desegregating public schools. However, frustrated by the foot-dragging and…

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Hoover

Beginning in the 1940s, Marshall battled with federal law enforcement officials for failing to protect the civil rights of black Americans in the South. Initially, Marshall and FBI director, J.…

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Early Life

After graduating Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall went to all male Lincoln University in Oxford, PA. Among his many fellow classmates was the already renowned poet, Langston…

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Early Naacp

In 1936, Marshall moved to New York to work at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  The civil rights groups had recently begun to operate a…

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