Four were HLS graduates: William T. Coleman, Jr., Charles T. Duncan, William H. Hastie and Charles H. Houston. Cecilia Marshall was in attendance and accepted the award on behalf of her late husband, Thurgood Marshall, who was a Supreme Court Justice himself.
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African-American Research; and University President Neil L. Rudenstine also spoke.
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