Tag: Supreme Court

Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado; Eliminating the “Root and Branch” of School Segregation

by NationalArchivesBlog, posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights Protest & Issues, Schools and Education

Today's post was written by Cody White, Archivist at the National Archives at Denver The stark, black and white Denver Post photograph one finds online is startling; in it two firemen are sweeping broken glass from a window shattered by a pipe bomb while Wilfred Keyes and his wife, just shadows in the dark of … Continue reading Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado; Eliminating the “Root and Branch” of School Segregation

“The Long Siege”: Thurgood Marshall’s Other Court Nomination Battle

by RediscoveringBlog, posted in Civil Rights

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to serve as United States Supreme Court Justice. It was a milestone etched in the American memory in part because of the infamous fight to push Marshall’s nomination through a bitterly divided U.S. Senate. But, few people know that the Supreme Court battle was not Marshall’s … Continue reading “The Long Siege”: Thurgood Marshall’s Other Court Nomination Battle