Thurgood Marshall Would Turn 100 Today
Via NPR, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the court's first African American Justice, would have turned 100 today.
Check out this clip -- billed as a "lost interview" between Marshall and Mike Wallace. Though it's undated, Marshall talks about Adam Clayton Powell's controversial support of Republican president Dwight Eisenhower and the Democratic Party's failure to act on segregation in the South.
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- July 2, 2008
That was true then
but that wing of the party left it after Johnson pushed through his great society. They have since all become republicans. The dixiecrats became the base of the republican party.
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By gt6July 2, 2008 - 10:35pm