Thrugood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2 of 1908. From a very young age his father thought him to appreciate the law and the constitution. He complete high school in 1925. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania after his brother William. He married his wife Vivian Burey right before he graduated. She passed away in 1955 do to cancer.
In 1930 he was denied admission to the University of Maryland Law School due to him being black. Later that he applied to Howard Law School and was accepted. Charles Hamilton Houston was the new dean and said that all Americans should be able to learn the law. Marshall's first major court case was in 1933 when he sued the university who denied him admission and won. He followed Houston to New York which gave him the oprotunity 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 o fthe Second Circuit. While he was served 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.
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This is a black person who forever changed the history of America. His life story is truely inspireing and moving. . |
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