110th birthday of Thurgood Marshall

(Born 2 July 1908, Baltimore, US)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

PREEMINENT freedom lawyer, first Africa American judge appointed to the US supreme court, October 1967, 191 years after the declaration of the US republic

(Charles Mingus Quintet, “Pithecanthropus erectus” [personnel: Mingus, bass; Jackie McLean, alto saxophone; JR Monterose, tenor saxophone; Mal Waldron, piano; Willie Jones, drums; recorded: Audio-Video Studios, New York, US, 30 January 1956]) 

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