Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice

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be where he is today. His grandfather, who could not read, sent him to a Catholic school run by a group of White nuns that was established for poor Black youth. He later became one of the first Blacks at his all-white Catholic high school. His first premonition was to enter the priesthood but declined after a fellow seminarian student exclaimed, “ Good I hope the SOB dies” following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. He came to realize he could never escape being Black. While enrolled at Holy Cross College, the first in his family to attend college, he became an activist. He became interested in the Black Panther Party; he also founded the Black Student Union in 1971 at Holy Cross. He also states he believes in the American dream, “because he has seen it in his life.
While serving as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Thomas gave speeches accusing the Republican party of “blatant indifference” toward Black voters and chastised President ...

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