![]() Devising a legal strategy based on the Constitution, he forced rights to be extended equally to even the poorest, most disadvantaged citizens. history who can argue that he defeated segregation where it counts-in court. Marshall is the only black leader in U.S. He is certainly the most important lawyer of the 20th Century.” ![]() “In this century, only Earl Warren approaches Marshall. Krattenmaker, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University Law Center. ![]() “When I think of great American lawyers, I think of Thurgood Marshall, Abe Lincoln and Daniel Webster,” says Thomas G. Often the only hope among blacks in these small communities was expressed in a quiet, angry threat, whispered like code: Thurgood is coming. Marshall built his reputation slowly, in backwater Southern towns, overwhelmed but not overmatched by a twisted white justice wrought by judges and sheriffs who had few second thoughts about beating in black heads. ![]()
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