Posted on 10/30/2005 6:01:08 PM PST by tenn2005
Six-year-old Janice swept the porch of her grandmother's home in Luverne, Ala. "Whatever you're going to be in life, you be the best," her grandmother, Beulah Allen, admonished. "If you sweep floors, do it so well that when you finish they'll say that you swept floors the best and cleanest they've ever seen! Ten years later, they'll still be talking about what a good job you did." Resting on a bench, Janice contemplated the lively conversations and debates she heard on that porch. In the 1950s, African-American families in Alabama had a great deal to talk about. Jim Crow was in its heyday, and the Civil Rights movement was underway.
Young Janice listened quietly and intently as her parents, aunts, uncles and grandmother discussed the social upheaval around them. They talked about the NAACP Defense Fund and the work of lawyers, such as Fred Gray, who had represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. "Fred Gray was proof positive to my family that you could be a lawyer and also a decent person," Janice says.
Janice knew then what floor she wanted to sweep, and she knew the broom that she would use. She would become a lawyer.
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Thank you for the post. I would be proud to have Janice Rogers Brown on the U. S. Supreme Court.
In 1994, Gov. Wilson encouraged Janice to apply for an associate justice position with the Third District Court of Appeals. She served on the Court of Appeals until 1996, when Gov. Wilson nominated her to the state's highest court. Janice's confirmation made her the first African-American woman to ever sit on the California Supreme Court.
One of the finer things Governor Wilson ever did. .
WOO HOO G.F. Over here! JRB!!!!!
Thank you, GF!
I'll read first thing in the morning.
Don't miss the tribute to Rosa Parks I've planned ;^)
That's Wild!!!
Bump!
Very neat looking!
After that person he nominated withdrew, I called the White House Comment Line 1-800-456-1111 and said again that he should nominate Janice Rogers Brown.
Next time I'll throw in a "Don'tchoo make me come down there."
Justice Brown...
Not this time: Judge Samuel Alito is new choice for Supreme Court nominee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512438/posts
Phil, do you think it's a possibility that she is one of the ones who did not want to go through the whole process? we all like her here, maybe next time.
OK, then we're agreed. Janice Rogers Brown for the next vacancy. Stevens has been looking pretty wobbly lately.
Silver lining department, 11/08/2006: Does anyone think that Bush will have an easier time nominating Janice Rogers Brown in a Democratic Senate than he would have during a Republican Senate? Would the Democrats dare oppose a black woman? Politically, it's check and mate. If they try to Bork her, their base will be outraged. It worked with Clarence Thomas, who may be a very solid justice but Brown is Scalia-esque.
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