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#EstherMcCready was an American hero & Maryland pioneer. First Black woman to attend ⁦@UofMaryland⁩ Nursing School. Read abt her determination & the extraordinary life she led. Her dream team of civil rts attys successfully sued for her admittance. baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-…
Her team of attys were Charles Hamilton Houston - this was his last case; Thurgood Marshall; & Donald Murray who had been the plaintiff in Houston & Thurgood Marshall’s successful case challenging segregation at the law school in 1935. Murray was now NAACP counsel in #Baltimore.
Marshall & Houston had to sue multiple schools in the @UofMaryland system to admit Black students. They won Murray’s admission to the law school in 1935. It was Marshall’s first successful civil rights case. 15 years later they all fought to get #EstherMcCready into UMD Nursing
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In the 1930s it was understood that if a Black man was accused of a violent crime against a white person on the Eastern Shore of MD, local officials would need to get him to this Baltimore City jail to keep him from being lynched. documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri…
Euel Lee narrowly missed being lynched in Worcester County in 1931 by being taken to the Baltimore City jail. Same for George Davis. Lynchers looked for him across 4 counties on the Eastern Shore in 1932.
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The attack on CRT is vindication for those white men who felt forever displaced & destabilized in the 80s & early 90s in the legal academy by CRT’s exposure of the “master narratives” the dominated lgl theory and practice & that had held them in power. theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…
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I feel like every year I’m compelled to do this thread. But here we go again.
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