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members of the historic Brown litigation team.–>
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Thurgood Marshall**, who went on to become the first black Supreme Court Justice (his widow accepted the award); Charles Hamilton Houston, the first black special counsel for the NAACP (his son, Charles III, accepted); and William Henry Hastie, the first black Federal Circuit Court judge (his daughter, Karen Hastie Williams, accepted). The medal was also given to surviving team members Oliver W. Hill, Constance Baker Motley, Louis H. Pollack, Robert L. Carter, Jack Weinsten, and Harvard alumni William T. Coleman Jr. ('43) and Charles Duncan ('50).

I can count 11 in this list alone. :chai:

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