TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
westbook <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:43:14 -0600
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (54 lines)
I read somewhere or saw on the MT special a few yrs.ago that this black law
student became a mentor for Thurgood Marshall, a later Supreme Court
justice.
Tim Champlin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hillary Murtha" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Lost citations


> Hi,
>
> I don't know what happened to the student he put through Yale (it
> would be wonderful if true that he, inturn, then helped our first
> black and one of our greatest Supreme Court Justices) but I do want to
> thank everyone for chipping in. You led me back to my source for both
> facts; Justin Kaplan's bio (p254, in case anyone is interested) and
> his source was indeed Howells.
> Thanks!
> Hillary Murtha
>
> On 1/18/12, Carl J. Chimi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Am I right that the man he put through Yale in later years became a
>> mentor
>> o=
>> f Thurgood Marshall?
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2012, at 4:34 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> "He held himself responsible for the wrong which the white race had done
>>> t=
>> he=20
>>> black race in slavery, and he explained, in paying the way of a negro=20
>>> student through Yale, that he was doing it as his part of the reparation
>>> d=
>> ue=20
>>> from every white to every black man. He said he had never seen this
>>> studen=
>> t,=20
>>> nor ever wished to see him or know his name; it was quite enough that he
>>> w=
>> as=20
>>> a negro."
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>

ATOM RSS1 RSS2