The Name You Haven't Grown Into Yet

In 1961, a young attorney named Thurgood Marshall sat in his small office in New York, preparing yet another civil rights brief, when he received a phone call from the White House. President Kennedy wanted to appoint him to the U. S. Court of Appeals. Marshall reportedly hesitated — he was a litigator, a scrapper from Baltimore who had argued cases in hostile Southern courtrooms where his life was genuinely in danger.…