[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 170 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 170

   Requesting the President to designate July 2, 1993, as ``Thurgood 
                            Marshall Day''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 1993

 Mr. Rangel submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
             the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Requesting the President to designate July 2, 1993, as ``Thurgood 
                            Marshall Day''.

Whereas, in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was appointed as the 1st African-American 
        Justice to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall had a distinguished legal career, as a civil rights 
        leader for more than 6 decades and as an Associate Justice of the 
        Supreme Court for 24 years;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall was the 1st African-American Solicitor General when he 
        served in that post from 1965 through 1967;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals 
        for the 2d Circuit in 1961;
Whereas, as a Judge for the Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit, Thurgood 
        Marshall wrote 112 opinions, none of which were reversed on appeal;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall successfully argued the landmark school desegregation 
        case, Brown v. Board of Education, which the Supreme Court decided in 
        1954;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall successfully argued 29 out of 32 cases before the 
        Supreme Court, 14 as a private lawyer and 18 as Solicitor General;
Whereas, during his tenure on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall remained 
        committed to equality of opportunity for all Americans, as he 
        demonstrated in his famous dissent in San Antonio Independent School 
        District v. Rodriguez, the 1973 decision in which he opined that equal 
        educational opportunity is a fundamental right protected by the 
        Constitution of the United States;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall mentored and trained a generation of young lawyers 
        through the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and, as its head from 
        1940 through 1961, championed minority rights;
Whereas Thurgood Marshall was a pioneer in the legal profession and expanded the 
        opportunities available to African-Americans, as well as to other 
        Americans; and
Whereas Thurgood Marshall was the preeminent civil rights lawyer of the 20th 
        century: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives requests the President 
to issue a proclamation honoring the accomplishments and memory of 
Thurgood Marshall and designating July 2, 1993, the date of Thurgood 
Marshall's birth, as ``Thurgood Marshall Day''.

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