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Thurgood Marshall — Part 12
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Voice of the
hare
Wuex the Supreme Court
hears arguments today Fy
on integration of public
Schools in Little Rock, Ark.,
Thurgood Marshail will be
shooting for his nineteenth
victory out of the twenty-one
civil rights cases he has
pleaded before the highest BOTTI ee tee
court. Because of his out- .
standing success in DATED _ Abdi ae
Man this field, he is “es
in th known throughout PARE ee
in the the Negro press as PAG BL .
News = “Mr. Civil Rights.” Popers 0 2 Sy BEVISTON
Mr. Marshall has ees sos
been full-time counsel for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
ple, spearhead of the Negro
drive for racial equality, since
1938.
But most of his major tri-
umphs in his iong fight for
equal rights in schools, poli-
tics, housing, employment,
transportation and public
places haye been won since
World War II. Recently he
predicted that full integration
would be achieved by 1984,
In the courts, Mr. Marshaii
pleads his cause in straight-
forward fashion, never with
histrionics or bombast, self-
righteousness or pedantry.
The quiet, scholarly voice that
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