Robert L. Carter, an Architect of School Desegregation, Dies at 94

[Cooley Hurd]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/nyregion/robert-l-carter-judge-and-desegregation-strategist-dies-at-94.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on racial segregation in 20th-century America, died on Tuesday morning in Manhattan. He was 94.

The cause was complications of a stroke, said his son John W. Carter, a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx.

Judge Carter presided over the merger of professional basketball leagues in the 1970s and was instrumental in opening the New York City police force to more minority applicants. But perhaps his greatest impact came in the late 1940s and 1950s as a member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., led by Thurgood Marshall.


The lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. From left, Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood W. Robinson III.
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[Ecumenist]

1. Well done, my good and Faithful servant...I'm sure he's hearing this

as he's home now. God bless you gentleman. Safe Journey. I wonder what we as black people and people of color have to look forward to in a time of wholesale disrespect of women, wearing sagging pants often as low as the waistline at the knees, (which is what men do in prison to advertise their sexual availability to other men), murder at the tiniest hint of "disrespect", denigrating one another with the vile slurs, using drugs with impunity, reproducing all over the country but not taking care of the children produced, (if financially responsible, certainly no emotionally so.

There's a rift between brown and black people in certain parts of the country...WHY? wE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT! Women no longer respect themselves. These men fouhgt for the right for their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to have a decent education and what for looking at this generation? They don't even realise the right to vote has to be renewed every few years. Our right to vote isn't even guaranteed....

My people, my people, what was it all for?