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When Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952, putting an end to Democratic control of the White House through the 1930s and 1940s, many Republicans thought they could at last reverse or rescind the New Deal, which they had run against under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
Marshall is best known for tearing down the legal architecture of segregation and, later, for becoming the first black Supreme Court justice. In the official histories, he is most prominently recognized as a fighter for racial justice. In fact, he deepened and broadened our understanding of the 14th Amendment in ways that would serve reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, workers’ rights and the very concept of “equality” itself.
“We make movies about Malcolm X, we get a holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King,” read an editorial in theafter Marshall’s death in 1993, “but every day, we live with the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall.”Andrew J. Bacevich is a co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His new book,Ours is a time when authenticity is in notably short supply. The American scene today is awash with frauds, phonies and poseurs. An appalling number of them prosper.
Day was the real deal. Few of us today have the strength of character to follow in her footsteps. Yet all of us can benefit from her example.Kelly Dittmar is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers-Camden and scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics. Hamer spoke an incredibly painful and personal truth to power at great risk to herself and with little reason to believe the system that had long failed her would listen. She lent her selflessness, resilience and power to upend that system. Yes, Hamer was sick and tired of the America in which she was never fully free, but she was tireless in her fight for an America in which she—and those who shared her race and gender—would be.
By the time FDR died in 1945, just weeks before the Allies won their war to defeat fascism and tyranny, Americans of all parties—a “liberal consensus”—had rededicated themselves to his conception of democracy. Roosevelt’s vision produced the nation’s greatest years, a time when, briefly, it seemed that all Americans could achieve equality. It deserves to be remembered.. The views expressed are his own.
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