Thrugood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2 in 1908. When he was little, his father thought him to join the law and the constitution. He completed high school in 1925.
He got married to Vivian Burey right before he graduated. Vivian passed away in 1955 because of cancer.
In 1930 he applied at the University of Maryland Law School. They denied him just because he was black. Later, he applied to Howard Law School and was accepted. Marshall's first major court case was in 1933 when he sued the university who denied him admission and won. He followed Houston, the school's dean, to New York which gave him the opprotunity to become the Chief Counsel for the NAACP. At the time he served as this postition he was asked to help draft the constitions for Ghana and Tanzania.
President John F. Kennedy made Thurgood the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit. While he was serving as the court of appeals, he wrote over 150 decisions including double jeopardy and the right of immigrants. However none of these were ever reversed by the Supreme Court. Then in 1965 he was moved to U.S Solicitor General by President Johnson. In 1967 he was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court. He won 14 of his 19 cases that the government asked for him to put before the court. Thurgood won more cases then any other American before on the Supreme Court. He is know as the Supreme Court Justice that gave a voice to voiceless americans. On January 24, 1993 Justice Marshall passed away. Thurgood was a very good man and if it wasn't for him, I don't think that blacks would have as many rights as they do today.
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