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NAACP | NAACP Legal History  ... the Moses of the civil rights movement, Houston was the architect and chief strategist of ... When Thurgood Marshall succeeded Houston as NAACP's Special Counsel, ... In 1950, Marshall won cases that struck down Texas and Oklahoma laws ... education, housing, environmental justice, criminal law and voting, striving...
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - Wikipedia  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc is a leading United States civil rights ... Sherrilyn Ifill was named the new president and director-counsel of LDF in November 2012. .... 1938: Missouri ex rel. ... 1950: McLaurin v. ..... General of the United States and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Important Supreme Court Cases for Civil Rights  This case was the beginning of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's effort to chip ... Board of Education, Chief Justice Earl Warren, reading his first major opinion ... held that the Sixth Amendment requires states to provide counsel for indigent ... of "interdistrict violations," while placing heavy burdens on plaintiffs in future cases.
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Thurgood Marshall Biography at Black History Now - Black Heritage ...  Jul 29, 2011 ... There, he joined such future African American luminaries as Kwame ... He became a special counsel for the NAACP in 1938, and then director ... discrimination in transportation, electoral politics, criminal justice, education, and housing. ... That same year, he was made Chief Counsel for the NAACP, taking...
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Thurgood Marshall - United States History  He was not accepted because he was black, and that set in motion events of his future. ... Most of the clients had disputes involving questions of racial justice, which ranged from common ... He then served as the chief counsel for the NAACP from 1938 to 1961. ... In 1950, Thurgood Marshall won two more cases, Sweatt vs.
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A Century of Racial Segregation 18491950 - Brown v. Board at ...  Between 1849 and 1950, blacks were segregated from whites by law and private ... Two major victories before the Supreme Court in 1950 led the NAACP toward a ... for an organization that would advocate the civil and political rights of African Americans. .... Charles Houston, NAACP Special Counsel, targeted law schools.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Wikipedia  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841  March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of ... During his tenure on the Supreme Court, to which he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, he...
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Thurgood Marshall | Posters | The African Americans: Many Rivers ...  The great-grandson of a slave born in modern-day Democratic Republic of the ... Supreme Court, where he served as Associate Justice from 1967 to 1991.
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Byron R. White | United States jurist | Britannica.com  Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (196293). ... In 1937 he was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy, the award for the best ... 1938, White became the highest-paid player in the National Football League (NFL), signing ... (and future U.S. Supreme Court justice) Byron R. (Whizzer) White, who played in...
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Brown v. Board of Education Timeline | National Archives  Aug 15, 2016 ... Board of Education Decision, 1954 1857Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error ... Chief Justice Taney, arguing from the original intentions of the ... Significance: Thurgood Marshall would become lead counsel in the Brown v. .... On the last day of the term, the Supreme Court handed down Brown ... Visits & Workshops.
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Miranda v Arizona: Essay  May 27, 2011 ... the court appointed him 73-year old public defender Alvin Moore. Prosector ... The case was then sent to Chief Justice Warren. ... Dwight Eisenhower, who appointed Warren, later regretted his decision, saying a few years after the appointment that Warren was the Biggest damfool mistake I ever made..
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Malcolm X: The road to revolution | Socialist Review  His life was a battle of ideas in which he responded to institutional racism and ... Born Malcolm Little in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, he grew up in an ... The young Malcolm was passed around various institutions before settling in Harlem, New York, with his older sister. ... Malcolm X spent 14 years in the Nation of Islam. His...
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William Brennan, 91, Dies; Gave Court Liberal Vision - The New ...  Jul 25, 1997 ... Supreme Court Justice William J Brennan Jr, towering figure in ... by Pres Eisenhower in 1956, after legal and judicial career in New Jersey; photos (L) ... Carr held that cases challenging unequal legislative apportionment...
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William H. Hastie - Wikipedia  William Henry Hastie, Jr. (November 17, 1904  April 14, 1976) was an American, lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and advocate for the civil rights of African Americans. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States ... One of his students there was future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood...
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Thurgood Marshall and LBJ: From the Johnson TapesMiller Center  Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908  January 24, 1993) was the first African American Solicitor General and the first African American Supreme Court justice, appointed to both positions by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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H.R. No. 133 H.R. No. 133 R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, January ...  WHEREAS, Dr. King joined the NAACP at an early age, and by 1954 he held a seat on ... protest, he endured numerous personal threats and attacks over the course of his career; and ... the Nobel Prize for Peace; he donated the money that accompanied the prize, more than $54,000, to further the civil rights movement; and.
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Benjamin L. Hooks | American jurist, minister and government ...  In July 1972 Hooks was appointed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and ... He resigned to become executive director of the NAACP on Aug.
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Felix Frankfurter - Wikipedia  Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882  February 22, 1965) was a jurist, who served as an .... Frankfurter was encouraged by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis to become more involved in Zionism. ... young lawyers toward public service with the New Deal administration; they became known as "Felix's Happy Hot Dogs".
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Thurgood Marshall - Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice ...  Jul 8, 2014 ... ... the first African-American Supreme Court justice, at Biography.com. ... He was also one of the most effective Civil Rights crusaders of the 20th Century. .... B. Johnson, appointed Marshall to serve as the first black U.S. solicitor ... Finally, in 1967, President Johnson nominated Marshall to serve on the...
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NAACP | NAACP Legal History  After training the first generation of Civil Rights lawyers during his years as Dean of ... for blacks were always separate, but never equal to those maintained for whites. ... as NAACP's Special Counsel, he continued the Association's legal campaign. ... Virginia (1946), Marshall won a case in which the Supreme Court struck...
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Free Flashcards about SUPREME COURT - StudyStack  AT THE TIME OF HIS 1902 NOMINATION TO THE SUPREME COURT, HE WAS CHIEF JUSTICE OF MASSACHUSETTS, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.