SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 10
(By Senators Holliday, Yoder, Anderson,
Bailey, Blatnik, Boley, Brackenrich,
Burdette, Mr. President, Chafin, Chernenko,
Claypole, Craigo, Dalton, Dittmar, Felton, Grubb,
Helmick, Humphreys, Jones, Lucht, Macnaughtan,
Manchin, Minard, Plymale, Ross, Sharpe, Tomblin,
Wagner, Walker, Wehrle, Whitlow, Wiedebusch,
Withers and Wooton)
Commemorating the passing of the Honorable Thurgood Marshall,
retired justice of the United States Supreme Court of
Appeals.
Whereas, The Honorable Thurgood Marshall shall be remembered
as a civil rights advocate, preeminent criminal defense lawyer,
attorney for the NAACP, solicitor general of the United States
and justice of the United States Supreme Court of Appeals; and
Whereas, The Honorable Thurgood Marshall was a pioneer for
civil rights as he won twenty-nine of thirty-two landmark civil
rights cases as an attorney for the NAACP; and
Whereas, The Honorable Thurgood Marshall's career as an
attorney for the NAACP was highlighted by his victory over school
segregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, where he
proved that "separate but equal" was not equal but, in his words,"Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the
same place;" and
Whereas, The Honorable Thurgood Marshall well represented
the liberal ideology of America while serving on the United
States Supreme Court of Appeals believing that the United States
would not be true to its democratic principles until there was an
end to the economic subordination, political injustice, social
inferiority and legal insecurity borne by its minorities; and
Whereas, The Honorable Thurgood Marshall held firm to his
beliefs and convictions as the majority of the court changed to
an increasing conservative stance that existed during the latter
half of his term in the United States Supreme Court of Appeals;
and
Whereas, The Honorable Thurgood Marshall did much for the
civil rights movement throughout his life by working with the
system and changing it from within; and
Whereas, The state of West Virginia shall remember the
Honorable Thurgood Marshall as one of the greatest Americans of
this century; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Legislature of West Virginia hereby expresses its
sincere sadness at the passing of the Honorable Thurgood
Marshall, retired justice of the United States Supreme Court of
Appeals; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby
directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the ThurgoodMarshall family, the president of the United States, the clerk of
the United States Supreme Court of Appeals, the justices of the
United States Supreme Court of Appeals, the governor of West
Virginia, the justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of
Appeals, the circuit court judges in West Virginia, the executive
director of the West Virginia human rights commission and the
executive secretary of the West Virginia state bar.