Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He served for 24 years before retiring for health reasons.
After reading Devil in the Grove, he became one of my heroes. The man had resolute courage. The book won a Pulitzer Prize. Every Floridian should read it. Devil in the Grove - Wikipedia Thurgood Marshall, known as "Mr. Civil Rights" and one of the most important American lawyers of the 20th century, entered the fray and represented the suspects for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The US Supreme Court overturned the convictions and returned the case to the state for retrial. Members of the Ku Klux Klan came to town, burned the homes of blacks to the ground, and chased hundreds into the swamps, as they were intent on lynching the young men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." The Ku Klux Klan initiated a wave of violence, shot two of the defendants, and killed one. Associates feared for Marshall's life during the time of the "Florida Terror" and worried that he was irreplaceable to the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Marshall was determined to fight for the case. The Klan murdered one of his NAACPassociates, Harry T. Moore, who was involved with the case in Florida, and Marshall received numerous threats that he would be next. (and very nearly was)
Gutsy dude. Thank god he was able to avoid all those Democrats running around lynching and threatening black people
like djt, they were dems who morphed into pubs we need more judges like TM and less Alito and Clarence Thomas
57 years ago, my girlfriend and I got married. We still are. (Luck and hard work have been the keys.)
