Your honor, you of all people should understand the importance of being first. You were the first in your family to serve in the Armed Forces. US Navy. The first to attend University. George Mason. And the first State Judge to be re- commissioned by three consecutive governors.
You've done some research.
Yes sir.
What's the point?
The point is, your honor. No negro woman in the state of virginia has ever attended an all-white high school.
It's unheard of.
Yeah! Unheard of.
And before Alan Shepard sat on top of the rocket, no other American had ever touched space. And now he will forever be remembered as US Navy man from New Hampshire, the first to touch the stars.
And I sir, I plan on being an engineer at NASA. But I can do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school. And I can't change the color of my skin. So I have no choice but to be the first. Which I can't do without you, sir.
Your Honor, out of all the cases you're gonna hear today, which one is gonna matter a hundred years from now? Which one is gonna make you "the first"?
Only the night classes.
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