Thurgood Marshall
Coverage of Thurgood Marshall in the Nexus archive.
- Long before the civil rights era, a WWII soldier was killed in Alexandria over a bus seat
In 1944, Army Pvt. Edward Green was shot and killed by bus driver Odell Lachney in Alexandria after sitting in the whites-only section of a bus. Lachney faced no charges, and the case, part of a broader pattern of violence against Black WWII servicemen, is now under renewed federal review.
- Long before the civil rights era, a WWII soldier was killed in a dispute over a bus seat
Private Edward Green, a Black U.S. Army soldier, was shot and killed by bus driver Odell Lachney in Alexandria, Louisiana, on March 13, 1944, after sitting in the whites-only section of a bus. No charges were filed against Lachney, and the case, along with 15 others involving Black WWII servicemen killed in the South, has recently been reviewed by the federal Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
- Today in History: June 13, first Pentagon Papers excerpts published
On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam leaked by Daniel Ellsberg. Other historical events on this date include a Nazi sabotage team arriving in New York, the Supreme Court ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, and the nomination of Thurgood Marshall as the first non-white Supreme Court justice.
- Spirit Airlines Seeks to Start Orderly Wind-Down to Sell Assets
Spirit Airlines is seeking to start an orderly wind-down to sell assets. The airline has signage at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Spirit Airlines is taking steps to restructure its operations.
- Thomas leaves nothing left unsaid on racial gerrymandering decision: ‘Go further’
Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a Supreme Court concurrence that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act should not apply to redistricting cases, going beyond the court's 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which upheld that a Louisiana congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, contended that the law’s anti-discrimination provision is divisive and irrelevant to district map-drawing, while the majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged limited racial considerations in redistricting.