Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer who argued (successfully) before the US Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). The Court’s decision in the case declared unconstitutional all state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students.
Marshall was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (August 1961 – August 1965) by President John F. Kennedy.
He was appointed as the US Solicitor General (August 1965 – August 1967) by President Lyndon Johnson.
President Johnson nominated him in 1967 to the United States Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall served as a US Supreme Court Justice from October 1967 thru October 1991.
Thurgood Marshall also served as an adviser to Kenyan nationalists during the 1960 negotiations (the first of three Lancaster House Conferences) on a new constitution for Kenya.
He traveled (air travel) from the United States to Kenya in January, 1960. His travels to Kenya are recorded in the book (the cover is embedded above), Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Masrhall’s African Journey (2008) by Mary L. Dudziak.
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey
Prior to the publication of Mary L. Dudziak’s book she published (Dec. 2006) a paper called Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya in the Duke Law Journal:
Duke Law Journal, Volume 56, December 2006, Number 3
The document is sixty (60) pages in length and on the first page we find this:
According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service chart below no one (US citizen or alien) traveled, by air, from the United States to Kenya between the dates of June 30th 1959 thru June 30th 1960.
This data cannot be accurate when we know that Thurgood Marshall traveled, by air, from the United States to Kenya in January, 1960.
https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofim1960unit#page/69/mode/1up
Thurgood Marshall returned to the United States at some point in February, 1960. However, at some point in January 1960 he traveled from Kenya to London (United Kingdom) and spent some time there as part of his role as adviser at negotiations for a new Kenyan constitution.
Conclusion:
Evidently the USDJ Annual Report for the INS are flawed, inaccurate and unreliable.
The annual report from 1962 cannot be used as evidence to rule out the possibility of the following individuals traveling (by air) from Kenya to the United States in August 1961:
1. Stanley Ann Dunham
2. Barack Obama, II
3. Barack Obama, Sr.
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Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black American (or African-American as he may have preferred?) US Supreme Court Justice, passed away on January 24th 1993.
Mr. Smith,
I went through BHO SR. immigration file, with the intention of learning what each document was required to report and the instructions that pertained to each document. It’s a lot of small print and government numbered forms, but I believe I found something very interesting in the timeline. Are you interested?
@ Martha555:
Yes, absolutely.
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