It can most reasonably be inferred from the passage that Marshall's legal strategy for attacking the "separate but eq...

Emil-Kunkin on October 27, 2022

I would start by looking at Marshall's approach as described in the end of the second paragraph, roughly lines 30-34. He took one approach in the short term while fighting for a broader long term aim, which implies that he believed this would be a gradual process. We can also consider the time frame, He started in the 1930s and was not completely successful until the 1950s