In this quote, Thurgood Marshall is talking about the time between the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (which was supposed to free slaves in the Confederacy) to the Brown vs. Board case which ruled that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.
The reason he brings up these two events is because it shows how little progress American society has changed in these 90 years. Even though African-Americans were supposed to be free citizens after the Emancipation Proclamation, they were still treated as second class citizens in the US. They were constantly targets of voter discrimination, violence, and prejudice.
An explosive possibility or a defensive feeling or action.
Answer:
People believed that the Earth was actually the center of the universe, and he was concerned about publishing his ideas because this was very frowned upon and he would get harshly critcized and most likely punished for this idea.
Explanation:
The highest civic virtue in Rome was to put the well-being of the state and the republic above your own. The founding fathers believed that the US would prosper if people behaved in the same manner and fought together for a higher cause.
It had european troops i pretty sure