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While it may not be true that laws and constitutions do not act to right wrong and overturn established folkways overnight, it is also true that the reaffirmation of these principles of democracy builds a body of public opinion in which rights and privileges of citizenship may be enjoyed.

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Desegregation is not and was never expected to be an easy task.

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While it may be true that laws and constitutions do not act to right wrong and overturn established folkways overnight, it is also true that the reaffirmation of these principles of democracy build a body of public opinion in which rights and privileges of citizenship may be enjoyed, and in which the more brazen as well as the more sophisticated attempts at deprivation may be halted.

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall

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Born: July 2, 1908

Died: January 24, 1993 (aged 84)

Bio: Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

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