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 >>