Thurgood Marshall focused on having free individual rights no matter what the color of someone’s skin was. He fought hard to see that African Americans and Caucasians could live in peace without segregation. His most famous win was Brown vs. Board of Education.
Brown vs. Board of education included 11 lawsuits and five different states. States that took part in this trial were South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Kansas. During this trial Thurgood and his associates made sure to incorporate amendments from the constitution to show that everyone is entitled to equality. The amendments used in Brown vs. Board of Education were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. They all represented racial equality. These amendments helped to give that extra boost to desegregate public and private schools in 1954. The saying “Separate but not equal” came into play a lot during this trial. Everyone should be equal no matter their race, religion, ethnicity, or family background. Thurgood made such an impact on society and helped to “change the world” per say that a movie was made on his famous case Brown vs. Board of Education.
During the 1950’s time period Thurgood also worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. to help put an end to racial segregation whether it was at schools or at restaurants. Together they seemed to be an unstoppable and powerful team. Thurgood’s legacy was to have justice for all. He didn’t care if you were white, black, purple, or orange. Everyone deserved and still does deserve to have equality and to be treated with respect and gratitude.
Now Thurgood wasn’t your ordinary Joe from down the street. He served on the Supreme Court for 24 years and had attended Lincoln University and graduated from there with honors in 1930. Thurgood also applied to University of Maryland Law School but was rejected because of his skin color. He also stood as a member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
The struggles he dealt with as being a colored man were what seemed to have kept him motivated to desegregate schools and most public places in the 1950’s through today. Just think if it wasn’t for all the boycotters, rallies, and influential people in those days we would all still be
Anna Dobrydnio AP Human Geography P.8 Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall has demonstrated outstanding achievements that are embodied in the IB Learner Profile. Thurgood Marshall strived to be knowledgeable, a thinker, and principled. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. Born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson of a slave. His father set a good example and instilled a love for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law…
Thurgood Marshall Childhood Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. Thurgood Marshall was involved violent arguments about law with his father and his brother at the dinner table. His father is William Marshall, was a steward at an exclusive club, and his mother is Norma was a kindergarten teacher. Adulthood Marshall had spent most of his adult life serving and fighting for the rights of minorities and individuals. He is often referred do as one of the greatest constitutional…
May 2013 Thurgood Marshall He was a rare man of his time, one who wasn’t afraid to go head-to-head with a white man, especially in front of a judge. Thurgood Marshall had a very strong influence on the Civil Rights Movement. His arguments and cases helped provide the kick start to allow the Civil Rights Movement to begin. On July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland (Horn 44), Thoroughgood Marshall, later known Thurgood to shorten the length, was born to Norma and William Marshall (Pinkney 108)…
History Month report is going to be about Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2 1908 in Baltimore Maryland. Thurgood Marshall attended Frederick Douglass high school in Baltimore and was placed in the class with the class with the best students. Thurgood Marshall loved to play tricks on his teacher and classmates. Then he graduated a year early in 1925 with a b – grade average and placed in the top here students of his class. Then Thurgood Marshall went to Lincoln University to study…
17-year-old girl. White supremacists obsessed over controlling the black race, and protecting the “flower of southern womanhood”. While blacks feared for their lives. And with the influential but extremely courageous help of the NAACP, especially Thurgood Marshall, some fought back. Gilbert Kings Novel, The Devil in the Grove, tells the story of a rather suspenseful tragic time for our Nation that should never be forgotten or repeated. A time when irrational…
Overview of Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King Matthew Miller College of Central Florida “Devil in the Grove” by author Gilbert King is the story about Thurgood Marshall, the American lawyer of the twentieth century, and Sheriff Willis McCall, sheriff of Lake County Florida. In 1949, Norma Padgett, a 17 year old girl and her husband, to whom she was separated, were broken down on the side of the road when four African American boys pulled over to assist them. Later Sheriff McCall was called to the…
a casket symbolizing the amensment and termination of Jim Crow Laws. Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was born in the year 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a civil rights lawyer, associate justice of the supreme court. He was a longtime lawyer for the national association for the advanced of colored people, and later was a justice of the united states supreme court. Thurgood Marshall was interested in destroying legalized racial segregation in the united states. The events…
ruling that the segregated public schools were "substantially" equal enough to be constitutional under the Plessy doctrine. Brown appealed to the Supreme Court, which consolidated and then reviewed all the school segregation actions together. Thurgood Marshall, who would in 1967 be appointed the first black justice of the Court, was chief counsel for the plaintiffs. Thanks to the astute leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court spoke in a unanimous decision written by Warren himself. The…
under Thurgood Marshall’s insight to win cases argued over in the Supreme Court, some of which were the Plessy V. Ferguson and Morgan V. Virginia cases. Due to his success, in 1967, President Johnson nominated Marshall to serve on the bench before which he had successfully argued so many times before—the United States Supreme Court. On October 2, 1967, Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, becoming the first African American to serve on the nation's highest court. (Thurgood Marshall Biography)…
the Topeka Board of Education because their kids had to go to a black school that was further away while a white school was merely a few blocks away. The Brown Plaintiffs were backed my NAACP to try to win this case. The organization hired Thurgood Marshall to defend the plaintiffs in the supreme court because the case was lost when challenged in state. The state used the Plessy vs. Ferguson case to justify why they couldn't change the policy. The positive qualities of the case are that they…
