Thurgood Marshall Research Paper

Thurgood Marshall AKA “Mr. Civil Rights”
Thurgood Marshall was a past United States Supreme Court Justice who was born on July 2 1908. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He did not have a loving childhood due to the fact of he was born a slave. His mother Norma Arica Marshall was a teacher in color segregated elementary school. Thurgood was also the product of William Canfield Marshall who was a dining cart waiter in a private club. Thurgood Marshall graduated from high school in 1925 when he was seventeen years old. Then he went on to fulfill his dream of a higher education at the Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He later made the choice of attending Howard University for the passion of law. Later he graduated first in his class in 1933 …show more content…
In Marshall’s case Brown v. board of education of Topeka Kansas, was about an African American girl had to walk across a busy railroad switching yard to get to a bus stop that that was over a mile away from the house but, there was an all-white school that was closer to the Brown’s home. After declaring the cause of action of segregation unequal meant that it was unconstitutional in 1955. ("Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas”) In 1965 president linden Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the 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 founded LDF (Legal Defense and Educational Fund) in 1940 and served as its first Director-Counsel. He was the architect of the legal strategy that ended the country’s official policy of segregation. In 1936, Marshall became the NAACP’s chief legal counsel. The NAACP’s initial goal was to funnel equal resources to black schools. Marshall successfully challenged the board to only control cases that would address the source of …show more content…
At one point, he oversaw as many as 450 simultaneous cases. Among other major victories, he successfully challenged a whites-only primary elections in Texas in addition to a case in which the Supreme Court declared that restrictive covenants that barred blacks from buying or renting homes could not be enforced in state courts. He was a key part of the Court's progressive majority that voted to uphold a woman's right to abortion (a woman's right to end a pregnancy).
His majority opinions (statements issued by a judge) covered such areas as the environment, the right of appeal of persons convicted of drug charges, failure to report for and submit to service in the U.S. armed forces, and the rights of Native Americans. Marshall lived with his wife near Washington, D.C., until his death in 1993. Marshalls' oldest son, Thurgood, Jr. is an attorney on Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Committee staff. The younger son, John, is a Virginia state police

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