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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall is considered one of the greatest figures for the Civil Rights Movement, right alongside Martin Luther King. He might be one of the least recognized, but he has done so much that we don't even think about. Thurgood Marshall will forever have an impact on every single American, no matter their age, color, or gender.
He went to college at Lincoln University in Philadelphia. He applied to the University of Maryland Law School, and despite being overqualified for the acceptance, was denied due to his race. Instead, Thurgood ends up attending Howard University in Washington, D.C. He got close to the dean of Howard Law, Charles Houston, while he was at school.
Thurgood Marshall also served as a judge on the U.S. Second Court of Appeals for four years before he was appointed to be the first colored U.S. solicitor general and served in that role for two years. He won 14 out of the 19 cases he fought before the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 by Lyndon B. Johnson and was the first African American to become a Supreme Court Justice. He served under Chief Justices Earl Warren and William H. Rehnquist. He retired in 1991.
Thurgood was involved in a variety of different American Civil Rights cases for colored men and women including Chambers v. Florida, Smith v. Allwright, and the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. He was also successful in all three of these cases.
Thurgood Marshall died on January 24, 1993. He was 84 years old. He had two sons with his second wife, Thurgood Marshall Jr. and John Marshall.
Thurgood was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was on the debate team in high school and developed a love for law at a young age. He graduated from high school in 1925.
He tried to establish his own practice, but didn't have enough experience to get any cases. Instead, he ends up working at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. One of his first cases there, Murray v. Pearson, Marshall fought alongside his old dean from Howard and won a case that involved a well qualified colored boy who wasn't accepted due to his race. He ended up winning this case.