Son of Zenas Marshall Crane and Louise Fanny Laflin, Winthrop was a leading member of the Crane family of Dalton, Massachusetts, owners of the privately held Crane Paper Company, sole suppliers of the paper for the Federal Reserve Notes, the currency of the United States.

In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Marshall Township is a civil township of Calhoun County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

In 2010, the state legislature designated May 17 as Thurgood Marshall Day in honor of his work in civil rights.

The city's large African American population and the presence of black institutions of higher learning made Marshall a center of the civil rights movement in the American South.

Marshall ’ s Libertarian extension echoes a civil liberty approach ( i. e. a commitment to extend equal rights to all members of a community ).

A member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, JSU holds an important place in the history of US civil rights.

He stumped across the state in a Jeep station wagon for the Marshall Plan, civil rights, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, more public housing, and more social security programs.

African-American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall fought numerous battles in the courts for equal opportunity for all races in the United States.

In 1946, Chang, representing the national government, was a member of the Committee of Three along with General George C. Marshall, then head of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chinese Communist Party representative Zhou Enlai ( 周恩來 ), which had been established in Nanjing in January, 1946 to effect a Kuomingtang-Chinese Communist Party truce and head off civil war.

He attended Marshall College in Mercersburg — a forerunner of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster — and received his degree in civil engineering in 1853 from Union College in Schenectady, New York.

* Centre's John Marshall Harlan praised as civil rights pioneer ( March 5, 2009 ) at Centre College.

* Thurgood Marshall :( 1908 – 1991 ) American civil rights attorney and Associate Justice Of the United State Supreme Court

In the tradition of his philopshical and academic focus of promoting civil rights in education, Knox worked alongside Thurgood Marshall in the campaign that led to the desegregation of the schools in the District of Columbia and also served as the Chairman of Education for the NAACP from 1945 to 1962.

Dr. Knox's contemporaries, colleagues, and close friends included Nobel Prize winner Ralph Bunche, United States Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, as well as famed California architect Paul Williams and civil rights leader H. Claude Hudson.

It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored such then-young civil rights stalwarts as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks and Bob Moses.

In 1991, Little was cast as a civil rights lawyer in the TV docudrama, Separate But Equal, starring Sidney Poitier, who portrayed the first black U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, NAACP lead attorney in the 1954 Supreme Court case desegregating public schools.

* Peter Paul Marshall ( 1830 – 1900 ), Scottish civil engineer, painter, and partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co

The annual RCNL conferences featured entertainers, such as Mahalia Jackson, speakers, such as Thurgood Marshall and Rep. Charles Diggs of Michigan, and panels on voting rights and other civil rights issues.

The hotel and restaurant quickly became famous, attracting prominent musicians and some of the most influential civil rights leaders of the day, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Thurgood Marshall.

Sturminster Marshall is a village and civil parish in east Dorset in England, situated on the River Stour between Blandford Forum and Poole.

Her legal career began as a law clerk in the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ), where she worked with a distinguished group of civil rights attorneys, among them future U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, prominent Jewish-American civil-rights advocate Jack Greenberg, and many others.

Angry with Marshall, Breeskin approached Murchison ’ s attorney to sell him the rights to the song before the expansion vote in 1959.

After a few Marshall expletives, Murchison gave the rights to " Hail to the Redskins " to Marshall for his vote, the lone one against Murchison getting a franchise at that time, and a rivalry was born.

* LGBT rights in the Marshall Islands

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

But, in mid-December, Marshall announced that on the day of the NFL draft he had traded the rights to Davis to the Cleveland Browns, who wanted Davis to join the league's leading rusher, Jim Brown, in their backfield.

In Worcester v. Georgia ( 1832 ), the US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that American Indian nations were " distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights ," and entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments that infringed on their sovereignty.

A year later, NBC acquired the rights to the show and chose Peter Marshall as host, a job he held for fifteen years until 1981.

The Marshall Islands sells fishing rights to other nations as a source of income.

* Marshall Meyer, rabbi and human rights activist

The opinion written by John Marshall held that the sale was a binding contract, which according to Article I, Section 10, Clause I ( the Contract Clause ) of the Constitution, cannot be invalidated even if illegally secured and as a result the ruling lends further protection to property rights against popular pressures and is the earliest case of the Court asserting its right to invalidate state laws which are in conflict with or are otherwise contrary to the Constitution.

Cohens v. Virginia,, was a United States Supreme Court decision most noted for John Marshall and the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters when the defendant claims that their Constitutional rights have been violated.

Brennan, Douglas and Marshall were quite liberal, but Harlan was usually conservative, but had a family tradition of supporting the rights of blacks ( his grandfather of the same name had written a strong dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson ).

In September 2011, DreamWorks announced that they had picked up the film rights to the book ; Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are slated to produce, and screenwriter Melissa Mathison will adapt the story.

Historians agree that Justice Story — as much or more than Marshall or anyone else — reshaped American law in a conservative direction that protected property rights.

Gross had received Marshall courteously and they were discussing the case.

In doing so Marshall and Byrnes were `` asking for the ratification of a grim lesson in the facts of international life ''.

In an age of oratory, he was the king of orators, and both he himself and Chief Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncle Dan'l reached his thundering climax:

Conversely, Howard Marshall writes that the speeches were not entirely the inventions of the author and, while they may not be verbatim, nevertheless records the general idea.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

The best Italian colonial troops were the Eritrean Ascari, as stated by Italian Marshall Rodolfo Graziani and officer Amedeo Guillet.

The commissioners refused, and Pinckney and Marshall were soon afterward deported.

Marshall chose to bypass the normal documentary film-making department, Signal Corps, as he felt they were not capable of producing " sensitive and objective troop information films.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich J. Matthaei were the first to elucidate the nature of a codon in 1961 at the National Institutes of Health.

* In 2005, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren of Australia were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of Helicobacter pylori ( 1982 / 1983 ) and its role in peptic ulcer disease.

In Africa, these were Togo, the Cameroons, German South-West Africa, and German East Africa ; in Oceania, they were German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Marshall Islands.

The currency reforms were simultaneous with the $ 1. 4 billion in Marshall Plan money coming in from the United States, which was used primarily for investment.

Marshall Plan funding helped overcome bottlenecks in the surging economy caused by remaining controls ( which were removed in 1949 ), and Marshall Plan business reforms opened up a greatly expanded market for German exports.

The Marshall court ruled that while Native American tribes were sovereign nations ( Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831 ), state laws had no force on tribal lands ( Worcester v. Georgia, 1832 ).

In 1949, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania founded the Comecon in accordance with Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan, and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in Western Europe.

Along with the Stratocaster, the Marshall stack and amplifiers were crucial in shaping his heavily overdriven sound, enabling him to master the use of feedback as a musical effect, and he created a " definitive vocabulary for rock guitar ".

In 2006 Marshall designed new, prototype versions of " Murder One " which were then put into production, and the original amplifier was retired.

The Empire of Japan occupied the Marshall Islands in World War I, which were later joined with other former German territories in 1919 by the League of Nations to form the South Pacific Mandate.

In World War II, the islands were conquered by the United States in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Along with other Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands were then consolidated into the United-States-governed Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

The Marshall Islands were settled by Micronesians in the 2nd millennium BC.

The Marshall Islands were in an important geographical position, being the easternmost point in Japan's defensive ring at the beginning of World War II.