Baltimore Airport to be Named after Thurgood Marshall

[TreasonousBastard]

and not after Reagan or another dimwit wingnut.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051000838.html

[funflower]

1. Marshall was a true American hero.

[jobycom]

2. They can't name enough after that man

What a great human being.

[Wilms]

3. It's about

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Aaahhh, Justice Marshall. He was appointed during my law

Aaahhh, Justice Marshall. He was appointed in 1967 during my law school days. I loved reading his opinions then and now, always fair-minded, always inclusive, and always mindful that our laws are mandated under our constitution to include instead of exclude minorities even when the rights of minorities were not "popular."

He stood tall when he argued Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (desegregating public schools in America) representing the aggrieved plaintiffs and the NAACP before the U.S. Supreme Court. Many times did Thurgood Marshall put himself on the line for others. A legion of a man was he.

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edited to add: Read more about Justice Marshall at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

Marshall deserves having a Federal Court of Appeals building named in his honor not merely an airport. But it is a start however minor it may be.

Maryland has a decisive commemorative of Justice Marshall: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/6259/html/0001.html