Authors: Thurgood Marshall

Race and Civil Rights
1945–1989

The Sword and the Robe

Source: Marshall, Thurgood (1990) “Remarks Made at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, September 8, 1989,” Trotter Review: Vol. 4 : Iss. 3 , Article 2. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol4/iss3/2 . . .The task

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Race and Civil Rights
1989–Present

Reflections on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution

Source: available at http://thurgoodmarshall.com/the-bicentennial-speech/. Also available as Thurgood Marshall, “The Constitution’s Bicentennial: Commemorating the Wrong Document?” 40 Vanderbilt Law Review 1337 (1987); available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol40/iss6/3. The year 1987 marks the

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1945–1989

Bethel School District v. Fraser

Source: 478 U.S. 675, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/478/675. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari[1] to decide whether the First Amendment prevents a school district from disciplining a

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1945–1989

New York Times Co. v. United States

Source: 403 U.S. 713, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/403/713. PER CURIAM We granted certiorari[1] in these cases in which the United States seeks to enjoin the New York Times and the Washington Post from

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