SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT CHIEF
JUSTICE MARGARET H. MARSHALL
DISCUSSES HISTORIC BROWN DECISION DURING LAW
DAY
FESTIVITIES IN NORTHAMPTON
Northampton,
MA - Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H.
Marshall spoke about the importance
of Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark 1954
United States Supreme Court decision that declared the segregationist
doctrine of "separate but equal" to be unconstitutional,
in her keynote address during Law Day celebrations at the
Northampton Courthouse on May 12. Festivities also included
remarks by Western Housing Court Judge Dina E. Fein, Superior
Court Judge Bertha D. Josephson and Northampton Mayor Mary
Clare Higgins, as well as a panel discussion by five distinguished
professors from Smith College and the University of Massachusetts.
Chief
Justice Marshall addresses several hundred people
at the Northampton Courthouse for the Law Day celebration
on May 12, as Judge Fein, left, and Mayor Higgins
look on.
