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"You're not wanted in these parts."

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.) The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall knew the ugliness of racism in Maryland right through his bones. In one televised interview, Justice Marshall recounted one day as a youth, when he was in a section of Baltimore where he could not find a bathroom other than those designated for white people only. Unable to find a bathroom where he would not get arrested for answering the call of nature, he decided to use the bathroom at home far away, but by that time, the urine was running down his leg. The ugliness of segregation did not stop there. As only a for instance, Justice Marshall wanted to enroll in the University of Maryland law school, but he knew the school did not admit African Americans, so he enrolled in Howard University law school...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).