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Thurgood Marshall's Goodwill Tour to East Africa
In July 1963, Thurgood Marshall was asked by the State Department to travel to East Africa as a representative of the Kennedy administration. Marshall toured the newly independent nations of Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda, conferring with African leaders and providing advice on civil rights and economic development. He was accompanied by Berl Bernhard, director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The trip particularly strengthened relations between the U.S. and Kenya. In 1960 Marshall had been involved in writing the Kenyan Constitution. |