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Thurgood Marshall — Part 12

254 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Feb 26, 1987 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Thurgood Marshall · 254 pages OCR'd
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0-19, (Rev, 7-27-67} > ‘Only Family and Friends See Marshall Sworn In by Black By DANA BULLEN w directed the new justice's atten-. tions: except decide ‘cases, "Star Staff Writer ~ _ |tion to a passage stating: however.: [ “T sorta’ got sworn in,” said| “And so abideth faith, ope, It was the first,time Black had Thurgooé-Marshall, beaming. |charity, these three; but the: ever sworn in another justice. od-in-tre-bare Supreme greatest of these is charity. ” “J was very glad to adminis- Court office that he will move Black, Brennan, Atty. Gen. iter the oath,” he said. mercer, attended the swearing in had aes are Bek hall EE tacos, Bac ie a acco ca had writte chambers sp me Sout the ce ia aT am. - py to preserit this} No oné needed reminding that! ‘ icon P J Bible to the Hon. Thurgood ry. Marshall on the date I adminis-| counsel -for ‘the NAACP Legal, There was no announcement, tered the ‘oath of office to him as| Defense Fund, that he was the: land _obody except family and a} associate Justice of the Uniteq|Jawyer who won the 1954 school: ew friends were present: " (States.” desegregation case, that Presi- Not many years ago the! Others present ‘Included ‘m7 | dent Kennedy had made him a: oment would have been impos-| Perry Pippitt, the court’s mar-| federal appeals court judge’ and}. sible, even unthinkable. y that now, after a term as.U.S. | But there in the office late ay Mrs. ramen iack’s secre- Solicitor general, the son of. al yesterday, an historical moment) clerks, Of the nine justice, it| Pullman car steward and the’ merged into. small. talk about happened that only Black and great-grandson. of a. slave “had! what color rug to put in, wheth-|Rrennan were atthe court. . | been elevated fo one of the er the fire place worked, and so highest posts in the nation. | m. «A First for Black _. -| Jt was allthere, though, | On a sofa, one. of ‘the few When the court opens-iis new| , The moment dissolved, finally, pieces of furniture eft be ve term on the first Monday in| when ‘Marshall, Brennan anda Justice Tom GC. Clark. whom| October, - Marshall will take a few others- ‘simply wandered off, Marshall succeeds, Mrs. Mar- second, ‘ “judicial” oath too, The| Brennan wanted to. show his shail and the new justice’s two| Me: he took” yesterday permits| new colleague his_new green, small sons—-Thurgeod Jr., 11, | im _t? per court func-jrug. — : . | and John, 9—Sat looking on. ‘Still Have Butterflies’ | | " Holding .a . white-covered] Gideon’s Bible that Black had given her husband’ to mark the =loecasion, Mrs. Marshall said: “Its thrilling. I haven’t: quite! gotten ‘over the’ confirmation yet. I still have butterflies in my: stomach,” Two days earlier, on Wednes- day,. the Senate. approved Mar- shall’s nomination, 69-to-11. With lone ‘exception, Sen. Robert C, eeu D-W. Va., all of the votes against the President Johnson’s appointee were by’ Southern senators, many of them bitter critics of Supreme Court rulings: In the stark. office at the Supreme Court, however, the ; 6 -/. ) aon. mood was different, Quiet.) . by - 86 40 } Smiling. Stating that Marshall “goes to work now, Black said, “I need NOT WoT RECORDED some! ‘o help me sign orders.” pep gn these 428 SEP VO i967 In the Bible that Black had given Marshall, Black had ———— BZ SEPB 1967 29) inte on Tuesday, chatting easily Ramsey Clark and others who Asked about the’ significance £- Marshall, 59, was for 23 years| | PU gs ECeoLoach . jit 7a sper Callahan Conrad Felt aie *" Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) p-3— The Sunday Star (Washington) —__ Daily News (New York) — Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World “SEP 2 987 Dates. _
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