Of course, Marshall knew that the decisions had not gone so far as to obliterate Plessy completely, but he was at last beginning to see the fruits of the seeds Houston had planted after he and Marshall, in 1930, had sat down together to study the findings in the Margold Report. In the twenty years since, they had honed “the tools to destroy all governmentally imposed racial segregation.” The work was not done, but it had unquestionably and irrevocably begun. “It will take time. It will take courage and determination,” Marshall said, as if to convince himself that he had the fortitude to
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