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Hace 1 día · e. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for ...
Hace 5 días · John Marshall Harlan (born May 20, 1899, Chicago—died Dec. 29, 1971, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971. He was the grandson of John Marshall Harlan, who sat on the Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911.
Hace 2 días · John Marshall was born on Sept. 24, 1755 in Prince William County (now Fauquier County ), Virginia. He was the eldest of 15 children. He was homeschooled, except for one year in a formal school and another attending lectures at William and Mary College. His father was his primary instructor, although the family employed a local parish priest as ...
Hace 4 días · To invoke Justice John Marshall Harlan’s extraordinary dissent in Plessy, “But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class ...
Hace 4 días · Wilks, S 2021, 'Review of 'John Marshall: Shipowner, Lloyd's Reformer and Emigration Agent' by Elizabeth Rushen', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 217-20. Year 2021. ANU Authors. Dr Stephen Wilks; Updated: 17 May 2024 / Responsible Officer: Director (Research Services Division) / Page Contact: Researchers.
Hace 1 día · The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.. As part of Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ...
Hace 4 días · Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948, Pin Point, near Savannah, Georgia, U.S.) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1991, the second African American to serve on the Court. Appointed to replace Thurgood Marshall (1908–93), the Court’s first African American member, Thomas gave the Court a decisive ...
