arden segregationist had voted against thurgood marshall's confirmation had voted against the civil rights act. had voted against the voting rights act. the second ranking democrat on the committee, john mcclellan, democratic senator from arkansas, had been absent from the marshall confirmation that had made clear he opposed marshall. had voted against the voting rights act and had voted against the civil rights act. and sam ervin, who we will encounter later in this class, democratic senator from north carolina, had voted against marshall confirmation, had voted against the voting rights act and had voted against the civil rights act.these are the three most senior democrats on the judiciary committee. these are senators who today would be among the most conservative members of the senate. there pitcher critics of the warren court and the warren court decision. essentially what they decide amongst themselves, eastland is the chair of the committee, the chair of the committee controls how the process operates, that an example the last few weeks, the key person in the kavanaugh hearings was

roy wilkins worked with thurgood marshall and other naacp lawyers to devise the strategy for a supremeourt test. they enlisted expert witnesses, who testified about the harm of segregation to black children. they argued that racial segregation in the schools violated the u.s. constitution. on may 17, 1954, the courts handed down a momentous decision. in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. the naacp had been instrumental in winning the most significant civil rights victory since the end of slavery. ♪ >> as far as the impact of the decision brown versus the board of education of topeka, kansas, had, it simply meant that the system under which thousands and thousands of negroes had been educated prior to that time was dumped out the window. could no law be passed that my children could go to this school and, if i were white, they go to that school. >> the 1954 decision spurred the naacp and other activist groups to challenge segregation. marches and sit inns led to the -- marches and sit in

and as a community, i want to push for that especially at thurgood marshall and the bayview. with y we really, really need this program. >> so another area that c.a.c. members have been focusing on is to look at examining other areas around equity, in particular looking at equitiable fund raising at our schools? and with e've been focusing at other school districts and schools are looking at fund raising and creates some opportunities of creating a central fund. so today, we met with deputy superintendent gentle blythe and the new director of development out of the development office to discuss these possibilities to get an idea. really important to this is to look at we want to reach out to other school communities and parent organizations to get an idea of what their questions might be, their ideas, concerns around this whole idea, but to look at how can we leverage funding across our schools where we're not able to currently generate family giving. and finally, we are recruiting new members for next -- for the c.a.c. next year, so if you know of parents or -- please spread

see another site the bug life is looking to reclaim twenty kilometers down the road at west thurgood marshall if successful it could add an additional seven hectares of protected habitat to the cause it's been a quiet so far with. fire and i went over a few times i really. before the site was abandoned it was a coal fired power station this black substrate is the fly ash which is the byproduct later on in the summer these low nutrient poor quality soils really favor the wallflowers that. was. really love and take advantage of the untrained eye it looks like so we've had to do a huge amount of work campaigning and raising awareness and we hope this is going to be one of our next big reserves and. you have a lot of resistance when you approach developers and local governments when you want to talk about conservation on sites that could earn a lot of money for them of course because this is prime development land. fortunately in just ten years the hoff with the brownfield a person just in the thames gateway or you've been developed so it demonstrates the need for sites such as can be wet and hop

who had to work time as a restaurant bus boy, enrolle oon to alongside an aspiring attorney thurgood marshalln the all black college lincoln emerge as alater to social activist and a poet, memorial, asincoln i'm sure all of you had and have. langston hughes, nd this is what he wrote in 1926. true, then, true now, and it, true , as he put time.ll langston hughes wrote let's go old abe sitting in the marble and the moonlight, quiet 10,000 centuries, old aide. million, million years. quiet and yet a voice forever timeless walls of time itself. old abe. thank you. [applause] you.ank so i have been handed some questions. we have about 10 minutes. i'll be removed from the stage at the dot of 7:30. so did lincoln think about or about his legacy during his presidency? that's a very good question, and he did. as early as december 1862, two the emancipation proclamation in its final signed and delivered to the american people, he said history. escape we'll be remembered in despite of ourselves. think he understood from the minute he affixed his name that he would t, be enshrined in american memory the

george m johnson, just like chadwick, should not play thurgood marshall.chard. skin color matters and how folks are to treated in navigating spaces. alexandria shift playing venus? i've a huge problem with this. it is constricting creative freedom of artist, actors. they should be up in arms over this. in fact, i'm going to put up a picture of will smith. this is he and dr. bennett or mollo. a doctor he played in the movie concussions. smith is much lighter than the doctor but who cares. the doctor loved smith's performance. chadwick bozeman play jackie robinson. notice anything different? he's a little darker than jackie robinson. who cares? we are focusing on this and the new rulers you cannot play a race not your own as an actor. that's horrible. when you have been kingsley winning academy awards for gandhi, laurence olivier in a career defining role. we should be open to actors ingenuity and creativity are not closing the doors on anybody. it doesn't matter. >> laura: i love hamilton. [laughs] i loved it. >> lin-manuel miranda wouldn't have been able t

part time as a restaurant bus boy, who was soon to enroll alongside an aspiring attorney named thurgood marshall in the all black college lincoln university, later to emerge as a social activist and a poet, visited the lincoln memorial, as i'm sure all of you had and have. his name was langston hughes, and this is what he wrote in 1926. true then, true now, and hopefully, as he put it, true for all time. langston hughes wrote "let's go see old abe sitting in the marble and the moonlight, quiet for 10,000 centuries, old abe. quiet for a million, million years. quiet and yet a voice forever against the timeless walls of time itself, old abe. " thank you. [applause] thank you. so i handed some questions, we have about 10 minutes -- not to worry, i will be removed from the stage on the dot of 7:30. so did lincoln think about or write about his legacy during his presidency? that's a very good question, and he did. as early as december 1862, two weeks before the emancipation proclamation in its final version was signed and delivered to the american people, he said we cannot escape history. we'll be re

voted third as lawyer of the century, but third is ok because it was behind clarence darrell and thurgood marshall. let me begin with minister barley. welcome. we are very fortunate to have you with us and appreciate you making the trip. . andministry has opened up exhibited the rosenberg files in washington and it opened this week. tell us more about the project and to what extent does it how german lawyers remain silent during some of the horrible injustices in the nazi regime. >> thank you. a warm welcome. the exhibit that you mentioned opened yesterday. it was at george washington university. the project that it deals with examines what happened in the after thef justice end of world war ii. what the scientists found out was, even though the minister, the first federal minister for justice was married to a jewish wife, and he was not a nazi, and his state secretary had jewish ancestors, he was not a nazi either. but, practically all the rest of the ministry was full of nazis. unit.were six heads of either of them had been members of the party. only one had not. he tried to get into the party,

i mean, so certainly part of the story is that every supreme court justice up until thurgood marshall is a white male. so part of the story is that the composition of the court has become more diverse in some ways over the last 40 years. in other ways, as i said, it's not so diverse. same law schools. same backgrounds. but with ginsburg and then you could add on to that o'connor, scalia, italian american wins confirmation 98-0. you know, several of these recent nominations -- and you can even add justice sotomayor really there who represents something different. nominated at points in time when the president is relatively popular and that president's party is in charge of the senate. but that's not the moment we're in right now. and that's part of the explanation for where we are right now. >> how does lewis f. powell fit in your analysis of being a nonjudge even though he's a prominent lawyer, bar association president, good schools, prominent law firm but how does he fit within your analysis? dr. huebner: right, it's a good question. lewis f. powell fits in the sense that he's the -