Justice Thurgood Marshall's Struggle Against Segregation In The United States

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The Civil War was over. The North won and slavery was abolished. Unfortunately African Americans were about to take on a whole different challenge, the battle for civil rights. The next 14 years would be filled with historic moments and become known as the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Americans began to realize that segregation was unreasonable and damaging to African-Americans and even the country’s reputation. Due to the way things were before the Civil War and Jim Crow Laws, African-American were not granted the same civil rights promised to every man and were treated as second class citizens in the American society. In the 50s, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led a resistance against segregation. The NAACP’s legal defense was lead by associate justice Thurgood Marshall. He believed that legally-binding decisions laws had to be made if the fight for equality was going to end.
The NAACP had won many cases in the 50s, only to see the losing states adjust their laws to get around the court’s decision. In 1951, though, Marshall and his band of lawyers found a monumental case in the civil rights movement. This case was Brown v. Board of Education and challenged segregation in public schools. …show more content…
The decision was of course met with resistance from the white community, who tried to block the entrance of the high school and prohibiting the entrance of the 9 students into the high school. Orval E. Faubus, governor of Arkansas and led this resistance. The police that was placed to protect the students were not allowed to protect adequate protection because of the blockage. On September 25, 1957 President Eisenhower, ordered the 101st airborne to bring order and protect the students. Faubus encouraged others across the South to close their schools in order to prevent
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