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
Ya, he was for quite awhile.
and the re publican's rebuked him, soundly. Is that all you got, noman37? By the way, your party seems to hve accommodated the KKK for over a hundred years. What's up with that? You guys don't care who you get in bed with, so long as they can keep you in power.
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By leftysrsickJuly 3, 2008 - 3:05pm