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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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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Other civil rights activist‚ such as Oprah and Thurgood Marshall‚ have also played a big part in the movement‚ all of them have even spoken to people in the most dangerous areas of the deep south for African-Americans. Thurgood‚ Oprah‚ and Martin’s method is better characterized as an attempt to change the public debate about race our country. Oprah‚ Thurgood‚ and Martin’s career success extends far beyond their considerable accomplishments;
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Ariana Cameron December 16‚ 2014 C block Ms. Pitcher Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights activist that was never going to give up. He worked his way up the ladder to become what he was and earned the praise he received throughout his life. He learned at a young age that discrimination is real and knew he wasn’t going to take it from anyone. He wasn’t going to allow people to degrade him because of the color of his skin or because of where he came from or because the color of
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Who is Thurgood Marshall? He was the first African-American to go into the Supreme Court Justice. While working as a lawyer he argued over 32 cases before he go into the supreme court and he won 29 of them. Thurgood Marshall accomplished many things in life and in being a lawyer. Thurgood
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Thurgood Marshall: one of America’s most important legal activists Hilary Wing Kutztown University INTRODUCTION: This paper addresses this void by examining the life‚ experiences and contributions of one of America’s most important legal activists: Thurgood Marshall. More specifically‚ the paper will:1) provide an overview of Marshall’s early years‚ focusing on his encounters with racism and experiences as an African American growing up in the early-twentieth century‚ 2) explore his development
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5. What contribution did Thurgood Marshall‚ Rosa Parks‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ SNCC‚ CORE and the SCLC make to civil rights? The contribution that Thurgood Marshall made on civil rights was a significant one. Marshall First was a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as the NAACP. He directed the lawsuit that demolished the legal foundations of the Jim Crow segregation. As well as this‚ Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and
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Museum The Civil Rights Movement was a movement that started in the 1955 and ended in 1968. ("American civil rights movement") There were many important figures during this movement but the most popular leaders in this movement were Rosa Parks‚ Thurgood Marshall‚ and the most famous leader for the “I Have A Dream” speech‚ Martin Luther King Jr. ("Black Power") In these 14 years of discrimination‚ colored US citizens were basically being bullied. The colored citizens had way less rights than whites did
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The NCAA and Thurgood Marshall battled to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson by breaking down the ¡°Separate but Equal¡± ruling and attacking the ¡°separate¡± before directly attacking Plessy v. Ferguson. In Plessy v. Ferguson‚ a 30 year old shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in a ¡°White¡± car of a railroad. Plessy argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. However all attempts in desegregating the railroad cars were refused
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July 2‚ 1908‚ in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ Thurgood Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP‚ he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954‚ he won the Brown v. Board of Education case‚ in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967‚ and served for 24 years. He died in Maryland on January 24‚ 1993. Early Life Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2‚ 1908‚ in Baltimore
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