Justice Thurgood Marshall's wife 'Cissy' Marshall dies at 94
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cecilia "Cissy" Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the civil rights
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Anonymous donation to fund 50 law students for civil rights work
The NAACP chose Martin Luther King Day to announce the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program, named for the Supreme Court justice and for Constance Baker Motley, who was an LDF attorney just a few years out of Columbia University Law School when she wrote the initial complaint that led to the court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling outlawing racial segregation in public schools. She later became the first Black woman federal judge. “Our country continues to be plagued with racial injustice, and we need Nonviolent Warriors who are prepared and equipped on all fronts to deal with it — especia...
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Single anonymous donor gives $40 million to fund 50 civil rights lawyers
The 50 scholarship recipients must commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South.
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