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








Proof?
So, what happened to the pro civil rights base of the republican party? They sure as hell didn't become democrats.
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By leftysrsickJuly 2, 2008 - 11:02pm