Government and Politics, Remembrance

A Legacy of Excellence

WHEN: August 30, ANNUALLY

WHERE: Wherever you are, or create an educational event for your family and/or friends.

REGISTRATION:

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was confirmed to the Supreme Court on this day, August 30, 1967, becoming the Supreme Court's first African-American Justice.

Justice Marshall was an amazing man, an icon, with an amazing and historic legacy, 🎓 including as a formidable Civil Rights attorney.

Because of Jim Crow-whites only, Marshall's beyond intelligent father was relegated to being a railroad porter, and a steward at an all-white country club. Justice Marshall's mother was a school teacher. However, his parents sacrificed and endured harsh treatments, so that their son would have better options than their Jim Crow-limited roles, nationwide.

Justice Marshall was denied entrance into the University of Maryland's Law School, because he was black. Justice Marshall then attended Howard University. 🎓 HHHHHH UUUUUUU!! YOU KNOW!!! Justice Marshall, upon graduation from Howard University, first in his class, then turned right around and sued the University of Maryland for its 14th Amendment violations, AND Mr. Marshall WON. 🥰

However, it was pre-Justice Marshall's role as an attorney for the plaintiffs in the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, that established Mr. Marshall as a legal and victorious force against many Jim Crow benefactors' "whites only" policies and injustices.

Mr. Marshall was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Marshall then became Solicitor General, nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, to litigate on behalf of the US government. Mr. Marshall was also the first African-American Solicitor General. 🎓 HHHHHHH UUUUUUUU!! YOU KNOW!!! Mr. Marshall was later nominated by President Johnson to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sons of confederate Vets-Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond opposed Mr. Marshall's nomination to the Supreme Court.

However, this is why we are asking you to honor Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the definition of excellence, ethics, integrity, and best of the best...

...versus the horrific and degrading legacy of Strom Thurmond.

Thurmond had the audacity to oppose Mr. Marshall, while Thurmond was a proud supporter of the LOSERS of the Civil War, a Cons (sons) of confederate Vets member, a rapist of his black teen maid, whom Thurmond impregnated and shamed into silence while shunning his black daughter, an ignorant white separatist and co-author of the Southern Manifesto, and a man who defines Jim Crow benefactor, inferior intellect. Thurmond is the embodiment of today's GOP, William Seward's once-progressive party that Strom Thurmond infected, after he left Democratic party to protest against President Lyndon B. Johnson's Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. The appointment of Clarence Thomas to replace the honorable Justice Marshall was a slap in the face to all Civil Rights' protesters, progress and ethics.

More information:

history.com/this-day-in-history/thurgood-marshall-confirmed-as-supreme-court-justice

britannica.com/biography/Thurgood-Marshall