... timely court decisions. Thomas G. Kraftenmaker a professor of Constitutional law at Georgetown University Law Center wrote, "When I think of great American lawyers I think of Thurgood Marshall, Abe Lincoln and Daniel Webster". In this century only Earl Warren approaches Marshall. Thurgood Marshall is certainly the most important lawyer of the 20th century. Thurgood Marshall is the only black leader ... timely court decisions. Thomas G. Kraftenmaker a professor of Constitutional law at Georgetown University Law Center wrote, "When I think of great American lawyers I think of Thurgood Marsh...

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... stated that no "State [should] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,3" was made a meaningful reality. Additionally, I believe that Lincoln himself did not desire to emancipate the slaves in the "de facto" sense as he believed it would lose the support of the slave- ... Rather, he once told a black audience that there "must be a position of superior and inferior.4" James A Rawley clarifies this stating that Lincoln "placed the nation uppermost – above peace, above abolition, above property rights, and even above the constitution.5" Other ulterior motives are suggested by ......

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... voting and the black community hasn't always been ideally located to capitalize on that), and intense party loyalties. The Black Vote Historically Ever since Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, African-Americans had been Republican. The GOP was the party of Lincoln, the party that had given them the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The Republican Party supported blacks, whereas the Democrat Party was the ... only 17 percent of the population, but constituted 31.5 percent of the unemployed. By his terms end, blacks were suffering, but still did not want to leave the "party of Lincoln" be...

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... principle would force him to read the constitution and memorize it. That probably made for the beginning of a great leader. Thurgood eventually went to Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He couldn't attend the University of Maryland because it was a white school and blacks were not admitted. But even at ... Lincoln, Marshall slacked off a lot in his studies, and focused more on fun. He was suspended from school more times he could count. He was ... principle would force him to read the constitution and memorize it. That probably made for the beginning of a great leader. Thurg...

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... King, Jr. had an audience with President John F. Kennedy, called for the adoption of new civil rights laws, with equal rights for blacks. August 28, 1963, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, published the "I Have a Dream" speech. He is the winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In April 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Memphis, after the strike leaders ... "march in Washington to work with freedom," the movement, the protest movement has more than two hundred and fifty thousand protesters gathered in Washington, DC. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr. publish...

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... throughout his life, even during his marriage. His health problems persisted, as well. He had stomach trouble, was far too thin, and failed physicals for both the army and the navy. But again, his father's connections prevailed, and a friendly doctor gave JFK a clean bill of health. JFK was sworn in as a naval ensign on September 25, 1941, less than two months ... and the other survivors were rescued by a party of British scouts and carried to safety. The ordeal made JFK a war hero. He received the Purple Heart, as well as the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and for the first time in his l...

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... the same year, SCLC joined with the other civil rights organizations to begin the March on Washington. On August 28th 1963, more than 200,000 people marched peacefully to the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. It was during this march that King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the ... Lincoln Memorial. (Hampton) Voting was privilege that was reserved to only whites in the south during the 1950's. For an African American to be able to register to vote they needed ... ...

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... Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). On August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 people, both black and white, gathered at the Washington Monument and Walked to the Lincoln Memorial. The march dramatized the struggle for jobs and freedom, and to try to force congress to pass a pending civil rights bill. The key speaker for the march was Martin ... ...

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... in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which more than 250,000 protesters gathered in Washington, D. C. It was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech: I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It ... ...

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... , Booker T. Booker Taliafero Washington (April 15?, 1856 - Nov. 15, 1915) was an orator, civil rights activist, professor, writer, and poet. He was born a slave in Virginia, but was freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (when it went into effect in the South, in 1865). Washington dedicated his life to education as a means of obtaining equality. He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial ... ...

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... (Duncan 115). The people from before the Civil Rights Movement were widely variegated in their beliefs and contributed to the turmoil that gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement. Abraham Lincoln brought the nation out of civil war; Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute and theorized how African-Americans could reach political equality; "Sojourner Truth proved [an] excellent [lecturer] against slavery (Boyer ... ...

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... other civil-rights leaders in organising the historic March on Washington. On August 28th, 1963, an interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered peacefully in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. Here the crowds were uplifted by the emotional strength and prophetic quality of King's famous "I have a dream" speech, in ... ...

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... of being treated like a dog. In 1964, the year O'Connor died, a riot broke out in Columbia, TN. In Columbia Tennessee, on February 25, 1946, a dispute erupted between James Stephenson, a black Navy veteran, and a white shopkeeper, who was threatening violence against Stephenson's mother over a disputed radio repair bill. The subsequent scuffle resulted in the clerk crashing through a store window. The Stephenson's were ... ...

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