Thurgood Marshall's Fight For Equality

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Obtaining equal educational opportunity is a struggle and can bring obstacles. These obstacles may seem impossible to overcome, but history has proven to us that there are individuals who are willing to fight for their equal rights. One of these individuals is Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was the first African American to join the supreme court. How does one join the supreme court? Especially if you are an African American during a time of racism and segregation. According to Baltimoresun, “ By the time he was 45 years old, Marshall would make history as the lead counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, when he successfully argued that segregated schools were inherently unequal” (www.baltimoresun.com). One of Marshall’s first cases with the

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Why Is Thurgood Marshall Important

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Justice on the Supreme Court. As a judge, he fought for individual rights along with equality for everyone. Marshall’s hard work and determination helped put an end to discrimination against African Americans as well as racial segregation. Not only did he fight for his own people but he also made an impact on particular areas such as the environment, failure to report for and to serve in the armed forces, the right of appeal of people convicted…

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Thurgood Marshall: The Great Dissenter

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. During his lifetime, he was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and an associate justice of the Supreme Court; as well as being the first African American member of the Supreme Court. As an attorney for 24 years, he successfully argued about the case Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in 1954 and won. The case was a declared unconstitutional racial segregation in American public schools and it was determined to see if schools…

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Thurgood Marshall: African-American Civil Rights Activist

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Mendez V. Westminster Case Study

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Poli 200 Paper 1

Equality for African Americans Elizabeth N. Giannuzzi Political Science 200 Professor Aarabi University Of Maryland Eastern Shore Equality for people, African American, to be specific, has been a struggle. Many have gone through racism, all the way dated before the Civil War,and it continued through the Civil War and then a long time after that. Before the Civil War there was a case that went before the Supreme court that ruled that “ Blacks could not be citizens because the founders had not…

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