house‚ what books he may read or what films he may watch.” Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2‚ 1908 in Baltimore‚ Maryland and died on January 24‚ 1993. His parents are Norma and William Marshall. He has one brother‚ William Marshall. Marshall studied at Frederick Douglass High School and was one of the top achievers in his class. Marshall grew up where Blacks weren’t getting the justice they deserved‚ so he joined the NAACP. Thurgood Marshall has not only gave blacks a right to education by ending
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Thurgood Marshall One of the greatest fighters of civil rights‚ Thurgood Marshall; was born on July 2‚ 1908 in Baltimore‚ Maryland. He achieved national recognition for his civil rights achievements as a lawyer and later as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall attended public schools in Baltimore. He is a product of Frederick Douglass High School. Later Marshall graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Howard University Law School in Washington
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the resident counsel in Texas‚ A. Maceo Smith the state’s NAACP leader and executive secretary‚ Carter W. Wesley the Houston Informer publisher‚ Kenneth Lampkin an Austin attorney‚ Lulu White the NAACP’s state director of branches‚ and Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was the lead NAACP Council‚ who presided over the Murray case and later become the lead Council for Sweatt case arguing before the Supreme Court. Gillette’s article describes the difficulties in selecting a qualified plaintiff. Lulu White
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was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black. When‚ combined with several other cases‚ her suit reached the Supreme Court. Responding to legal and sociological arguments presented by NAACP lawyers led by Thurgood Marshall‚ the court stressed that the "badge of inferiority" stamped on minority children by segregation hindered their full development no matter how "equal" physical facilities might be. After hearing further arguments on implementation‚ the court declared
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Thurgood Marshall Biography In this is biography I will be talking about a man named Thurgood Marshall‚ my biography will start to talk about why Thurgood Marshall is important‚ Thurgood Marshall is important because he was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and also a Civil Rights Advocate. My second thing that I will talk about is personal information about Thurgood Marshall. One personal thing about Thurgood Marshall is that his real name is Thoroughgood Marshall but in second grade he shortened
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school closest to her home‚ due to the color of her skin and was instead forced to go to a school for African American children much farther away. With the help of the NAACP‚ the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People‚ and Thurgood Marshall‚ her father‚ Oliver Brown‚ filed a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education. The Court spent four terms making their final decision‚ which came in 1954‚ banning segregated schools and getting rid of the whole “separate
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Ezenwa Emejuru Assignment 1 10/11/14 The speech Thurgood Marshall gave in 1987 was part of the constitutional bicentennial celebration. Politicians and Judges around the country were celebrating the "Founding Fathers" for their intelligence at writing a document that established the guiding legal principles of the republic for generations. But Marshall was one of the few people pointing out that the original constitution required numerous amendments‚ momentous social transformations‚ and came
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Brent Thomas U.S. History Since 1877 27 June 2012 John Marshall John Marshall‚ whose most notable political role of Chief Justice of the United States‚ played a major role in defining the American legal system‚ he was also known as one of the best Chief Justices that ever lived. For 34 years as Chief Justice‚ Marshall made significant contributions to the development of the U.S. Constitution through his high profile Supreme Court cases‚ such as Marbury v. Madison‚ McCulloch v. Maryland
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Media Nationalized cultural trends and regional events. Constitutional interpretation. WWI & WWII Third World Independence Movements. *Murray V. Pearson 9Maryland 19360 Thurgood Marshall and Donald Gaines Murray. Sweatt V. Painter (1950) Herman Sweatt denied entry into UT Law School because of his race. Marshall argued that even if the school built a new building it would still not be equal because certain elements of law school education cannot be duplicated in separate facilities.
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