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- Known for his earlier work in helping end legal segregation through the 1954 landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, he once described his judicial approach by simply saying, "You do what you think is right and let the law catch up."
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Jan 28, 2021 · Known for his earlier work in helping end legal segregation through the 1954 landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, he once described his judicial approach by simply saying, "You do what...
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The 1952 Brown versus Board of Education arguments centered around a relatively tame request from the civil rights lawyers: That public schools should be exempted from the Court's long-standing "separate but equal" doctrine. Thurgood Marshall and his colleagues were not seeking to strike down "separate but equal" itself, just carve out an ...
Board of Education of Topeka decision — 70 years ago this month — Thurgood Marshall, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully challenged racial segregation in public schools. Then...
Thurgood Marshall agreed that Houston's approach would be the best long-term strategy against the system of so-called "separate-but-equal" public facilities. But until the late 1940s, he directed the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund to follow what he saw as a more prudent, interim effort: using the courts to demand that states make the separate ...
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Nov 6, 2023 · Charles Houston, NAACP chief counsel from 1934 to 1938, and his successor Thurgood Marshall took the battle to the nation's schools in the 1930s and 40s, beginning with higher education. Several Supreme Court victories chipped away at the disparities in education, but the court's opinions underscored the justices' reluctance to go further and ...
Mr. Justice Marshall was nominated to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13, 1967. The Senate confirmed his appointment on August 30. He took his seat on October 2, 1967. See generally Carter, The Warren Court and Desegregation, in RACE, RACISM AND AMERICAN LAW 456-61.
