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After his nomination to the federal judgeship six years ago, Marshall had to wait a year while his confirmation was stalled by Southern segregationists in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This time there should be no such delay, although South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who will be a bellwether for many Southern colleagues, promises to oppose Marshall's confirmation—not because he is a Negro, insisted Thurmond, but because he is a "political liberal" and would strengthen the court's activists. Nonetheless, Marshall has firmly aligned himself with civil rights moderates, condemning among other things the black power movement and racial violence in the slums. Senate Mi nority Leader Everett Dirksen, predicting that Marshall will be confirmed without difficulty, noted: "He's a good lawyer. The fact of his color should make no difference."
* With a public school enrollment that is now 93% Negro, Washington for the first time last week got a school board that is also dominated by Negroes. With two new Negroes and one white appointed, the board will be 5 to 4 Negro.