Heroic Imagination News Today

Reina Cruz, a teacher at Northfield High School in Denver, recently won a prestigious $25,000 award for early and mid-career teachers.

>> marshall was a man of heroic imagination. 100 years after the end of slavery in the 50s, he looks around and lives in a segregated society where people cant go to lunch counters, schools, swimming pools, all of that discrimination, housing and decides that you can use the law to change it. that was such an act of imagination. >> whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation or decency. >> it is a uniquely american life, and he talks about america. the last thing ...

I think he understood there was a time and a place for all kinds of behavior from human beings and he indulled in those things at the appropriate times. >> the negroes who are forced to submit to segregation are all-american citizens who by accident are birth of a different color. color make no difference insofar as this court is concerned. >> marshall was a man of heroic imagination. 100 years after the end of slavery in the 50s, he looks around and lives in a segregated society where people ca...