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
The division was on geographic lines
not party. The North was for it, the south against. More northern Repubs voted no than northern Dems. When the Dixiecrats switched sides they became the base of the party and are most influencial even today. There was no pro-civil rights base per se, just that the north wwas less against it.
The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)
The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia opposed the measure)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
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By gt6July 3, 2008 - 7:49am