Tagged: missing black judges

“For 145 years the Federal courts in the continental United States — the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals and District Courts — were entirely made up of white males. The first woman, Florence Allen, was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1934, and the first African-American, William H. Hastie, in 1949, by Harry S. Truman.”

It’s not just about the quantity of black judges being appointed to the federal court if they think and act like Clarence Thomas and Timothy K. Lewis.

Source: Leon A. Higginbotham. The Case of the Missing Black Judges. New York Times, July 29, 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/29/opinion/the-case-of-the-missing-black-judges.html.