Thurgood Marshall: Mr. Civil Rights

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On July 2, 1908 in Baltimore someone was born to this world that would change it forever. On October 1, 1967 he was officially the first African American to be on the supreme court. He would fight for blacks right 32 times and won 29 of those times. His name Thurgood Marshall or also called Mr. Civil Rights.
One of his greatest things that he did was to stop at nothing to make sure that African American kids could go to school and would be treated equally. When he fought to give them that right he won. They got to go to school but they were not treated equally.
He was very mad. So he fought again to make sure that they were treated equally. He went to lincoln university after he went to Howard law school. When he graduated from Howard

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