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16 Cards in this Set
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Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on ________________. |
July 2, 1908 |
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When Thurgood was in school, they were _____________. |
segregated |
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Thurgood applied for law school at the University of Maryland, but he was rejected because ____________________. |
he was black |
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Thurgood went to ______________ University. |
Howard |
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After many years of schooling, Marshall became a ________________. |
lawyer |
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Because he defended poor people, he became known as the "__________________________." |
little man's lawyer |
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He became very involved with the __________________________. |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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Thurgood fought for _______________. |
civil rights |
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Civil rights means that all people are treated____________. |
equally |
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Thurgood is famous for a 1954 Supreme Court case called _______________________. |
Brown v. Board of Education |
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Marshall won the case of Brown v. Board of education, which ________________________. |
integrated schools |
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_______________________________ made Thurgood a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. |
President John F. Kennedy |
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Thurgood was the first ___________________. |
black Supreme Court justice |
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_______________ mean that black people and white people could not go to the same places. |
Segregation |
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____________________ means black people and white people have equal rights and are not allowed to go to the same places. |
Integration |
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The _____________ fights for the rights of African Americans. |
NAACP |
