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- From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Goodbye, Justice Marshall
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.194214.7840@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:42:14 GMT
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- Sender: pel@maximo (Phillip E lujan)
- Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
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- carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:
- |> Rachel sighs. "So many great people are leaving the world..."
- |>She accepts the IBC that Mike hands her and walks to the chalk line.
- |>
- |> "To Thurgood Marshall, first (and hopefully not last) black
- |>Supreme Court Justice, the lawyer who ended school segregation by winning
- |>Brown vs. the Board of Education, generally a great man who really cared
- |>about the ideals he stood for. He died yesterday of heart failure at the
- |>age of 84.
- |>
- |> "Blessings upon you, Justice Marshall, wherever you may be."
- |>
- |><CRASH!>
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- "I was watching The American Experience on PBS on Dr. King's birthday, and
- that particular show was on Justice Marshall's struggles to end segregation
- in the public school system. It ended with the Brown vs. Board of Education
- decision, and the celebration the NAACP legal staff had afterwards... Very
- educational and uplifting.
-
- "Goodbye, Justice Marshall. The work continues..."
-
- >>CRASH!!!<<
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- Starknight
- spr@abo.dec.com
- Disclaimer: Huh? What'd I say?
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