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[[image - black and white photograph of Spottswood Thomas Bolling]] [[caption]] Spottswood Thomas Bolling, a Washington high school boy, was a central figure in the Supreme Court decision which caused desegregation of District of Columbia schools. [[/caption]] [[portion of newspaper clipping]] [[box]] "All the News That's Fit to Print" [[/box]] Th[[cutoff]] VOL. CIII....No. 35,178. Entered as Second-Class Matter. Post Office, New York, N. Y., HIGH COURT [[cutoff]] 9-TO-0 DEC[[cutoff]] McCarthy [[/portion of newspaper clipping]] [[image - black and white photograph of George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit, Jr., standing in front of Supreme Court building]] [[caption]] N.A.A.C.P. attorneys George E. C. Hayes (left), Thurgood Marshall (center), and James Nabrit, Jr., a professor of law at Howard University. Associated with the N.A.A.C.P. for twenty years, Marshall became its chief legal counsel. Marshall commented that what the Southern Congressmen wanted must be "either a moratorium on the enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment or local option." But concerning children's minds, he declared, "There is no place for local option in our Constitution." [[/caption]]