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Spottswood Thomas Bolling, a Washington high school boy, was a central figure in the Supreme Court decision which cause desegregation of District of Columbia schools.

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."

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