Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Long before Thurgood Marshall won Brown v. Board of Education or took his seat as the first Black justice of the Supreme Court, he spent years as the NAACP’s traveling trial lawyer, defending Black clients in some of the most dangerous corners of the Jim Crow South. In 1946, one of those trips nearly cost him his life: after a courtroom victory in a small Southern town, local police stopped his car, arrested him on a bogus charge, and drove him toward a river where a mob was waiting. What state was he in?
Hint: The town sits about 30 miles from the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. He lived only because his fellow lawyers refused to leave his side.
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