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A little late to bring the subject up but since we just got off of Black History Month, and since I'm also a big fan of American History, I'd like to do a trivial trivia game with this subject in mind. Again, the rules are simple. A question is posed. First correct answer, let's say within 12 hours of posting, gets the right to ask the next question.
With that in mind, here we go.
Who was the first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to administer the Oath of Office?
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Clarence Thomas?
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Thurgood Marshall
“Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”
- Jefferson Davis
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Marshall was the first black to take the oath of office for SCOTUS.
Thomas was the first black to administer the oath of office - in this case to Mike Pence, as VP.
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Read it wrong.
“Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”
- Jefferson Davis
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Peter got it right, so he gets the next question.
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Which famous American Army division deployed troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, by order of the President, to escort 9 black high school students to Central High School- amid racist protests?
I served in that division right out of airborne school.The students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine, comprised the first black students to attend a previously-white school in Little Rock after Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus refused to follow federal integration laws established by the Supreme Court in their 1954 ruling, Brown versus Board of Education.
The deployment of Army troops to the city was not a big surprise because newspapers had been covering the conflict between President Eisenhower and Governor Faubus for weeks.
And they were carrying assault rifles!
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