A mentor's legacy; Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the civil rights movement
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Charles Hamilton Houston was the mentor of Thurgood Marshall and of a number of other black lawyers who were important figures in the civil rights movement. He developed the law school of Howard University into the seed from which the civil rights movement sprang. After Marshall graduated from Howard Law School in 1933, Houston inspired him to do NAACP work and to help with the attack on the 'separate but equal' doctrine. The cases litigated by Houston and his disciples in the 1940s were seminal in the early history of the American civil rights movement.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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A hero in more ways than one; a tribute to Thurgood Marshall
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Justice Thurgood Marshall changed the American social and legal landscape with his arguments before the US Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education. He denounced 'separate but equal' as a legal fiction. He began and gave crucial impetus to the fight of African Americans for equality in US society. In the 1950s less than 1% of US lawyers were African-American. Today 4.1% is. No person better symbolizes the civil rights movement than Thurgood Marshall.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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A vigil for Thurgood Marshall
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The passionate and diverse crowd who lined up to view the body of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as it lay in state at the Supreme Court was a fitting tribute to the man who passionately represented the interests of all Americans. Marshall's brand of justice, seeking inclusion and recognizing the strength of diversity, will never be forgotten.
Publication Name: Columbia Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0010-1958
Year: 1993
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