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Thurgood Marshall — Part 3
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PHILIP LIGHTFOOT SCRUGGS, Editor F. JAMES MURDOCH, Amnonciate Editor
DEL P. S3ITH, Managing Editor
8 . Snesday, Avgest 22, 1°37
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“Wait and see what I de when
* T get on the Supreme Court. | will
. end every ‘Whitcy’ to jail J can.”
/ wxeThurgood Marshall, reeently
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_ : Negro lawyer who undoubtedly will .-
, named by President Johnson to the
« US. Supreme Court.
The preceding remark by the
: be approved by the Sonate to fill
retiring Justice Tom Clark's scat
jon the highest court in tho Innd,
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‘was qnoted by the Washington
; Observer newaletler in a report re-
‘vealing-aevorat of Marshall's Com-
muniat-front eonriections.
The nowaletter pointed out that
a apecial report of the House Com-
» mittes on Un-American Activities
ghown that Marahall waa affilinted
' ith the American League Aghinst
“! War and Faacism—an organization
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launched by the American Comma-
‘gist Party in the early 1950s. Anoth-
er Communist-front connection cited
: by the Observer: “Alarshall also
7 ‘wan a member of tho International
: Juridieal Arsociation, n front anil
olfahoot af the Internalional Labor
s Defense, the Jeral arm of tho Ameri-
ean Communiat Party.”
Narshal) alse was named as A
: qember of tho left-wing National
. Lawyers Guild, and as co-signer of
“+a telerrams to Congress derhanding
> that the notorious Holly weod write
era not be elted for contempt y a
* gofusing to testify before the new H,
The aay ted th: that
ame me
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Distoriers
shall's remarx about eending “every
Whiter’ to jail I can’ was made
in a closed-door Negro “leadership”
meeting at Howard University in
October, 1961.
Kewsweoek mapazine of Septem.
‘Ler 18, 1981, quotes Marshall as
paying: “We've negotiated too quict-
ly and too reasonably for too long.
We'vo made up our minds to harass
the lezal hell out of the school
boards.’ From here on out, we're
‘ going to be unreasonable, undecent
and un-cverrihing else.”
Including an-American.
This in the man the Senate ix
expecied to confirm aa a Justice of
the US. Supreme Court, where ho
will ait in judgment an “Whiter”
and on cases involving “civil rights”
a—_a field in which, for 25 years
as an NAACP lawyer, he represent-
ed one sido.
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On tho court he will find a elique
-oaf “zou) brothers” — Chief Justice
Warren, Fortas Douglas and Tirene
nan. All five have perronal politi-
eal and = arociological fdeolorica
which ren counter to the philesophy
of the Conrlilution—the Conalitn-
tion each takes an oath te ephold!
The opinions of theae five “Hberan:::”
will continue to diatert the shape |
of American society, inslitations and
eulturo for rears to come. Thus arc
we miiecd My peraons who hold us
mand therehy do-tre
e are not fit to
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