Thurgood Marshall

movie "Simple Justice" Thurgood Marshall, the main character goes through rigorous training to become a lawyer that could someday overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. He slowly approaches the judicial branch with simple cases of questioning the equality of adult education. With the goal in mind of one day getting toward childhood education. The attack on Plessy v. Ferguson began in 1935 when Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston”founder of the NAACP and mentor to Thurgood”. Also, there to…

court. Basically, it’s their job to serve up justice. This type of thing, was what Thurgood Marshall ended up doing for a living. Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. Born to a grandson of a slave, life was sure to be hard. His passion for law started at an early age when his dad, William Marshall, used to pass by the local courthouse and listen to the case(Biography.com Staff 2017). Marshall says, “Now you want to know how I got involved in law? I don't know. The…

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up in Baltimore, Marshall experienced a lot of racial discrimination that shaped his passion for civil rights. The city he lived in had a death rate for African-Americans that was twice that of Caucasians, and due to separations of white and colored, Marshall was forced to go to an all-black grade school. One time he was unable to use the bathroom because all public restrooms were reserved for whites. Marshall's first…

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall stated in the 1974 Supreme Court Case Procunier v. Martinez, “ The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression.” (Smolla 615) Being the first African-American on the Supreme Court, Justice Thurgood Marshall knows himself, what it feels like for people to offend and insult you because of your race. Although, it was not easy for Justice Thurgood Marshall, he proved others…

Have you ever wondered who made the greatest impact on the civil rights movement? Well, I believe that Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall made the greatest impact on the civil rights movement. Because of Rosa Parks, buses are not segregated. Thurgood Marshall helped fully desegregate public schools in the South in the court case Brown vs Board of Education. Did you know that Rosa Parks actions helped inspire MLK Jr. to help the civil rights movement? Well, she also did many other substantial…

"The NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall knew that, in the white supremacist Southern courts of the mid-20th Century, any black man accused of sexually violating a white woman was certain to be found guilty."(Cerf) As a result this is what happened in the case of the Groveland four. This statement can be supported, according to the multiple killings of black men in the South of North America. Many individuals (especially white people) claimed that any black man who violated a white woman, that black man…

In society, an action of an individual or group often has a consequence that not only affects them, but others in society as well. Through action, society is able to progress and mend to the people’s ever changing beliefs and values. No one in history is remembered for what they did not do, but rather what they did do and how it affected society. For example, Harriet Tubman and the NAACP went down in history for their work in improving the lives of African-Americans and fighting to change the…

The intended goal of Brown vs the Board of Education was to integrate schools in order to provide equal opportunities to all children no matter what race or background they come from. I think that Brown accomplished its goal, but not to the full extent that it intended. Yes schools eventually did become integrated, but some children to this day are not receiving a quality education just because of the area they live in. In the movie Brown vs Board it discusses how education is still not equal…

attendent Yale University when he got older. After Yale University he served in administrations under former presidents George Bush and, Ronald Reagan. What got Clarence the job came from the retirement of the former African American Supreme Justice Thurgood Marshall, and which led Bush to nominate him as a replacement. In 1991 he was barely confirmed not including being accused of sexual harassment by a lawyer in public hearing. Now we know how he got in Supreme justice but what…

Future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948. He grew up in the small African-American community of Pin Point, Georgia, with his older sister Emma Mae and younger brother Myers Lee. His father disappeared early on in his life, and the family divided even further when he was 9 years old. Clarence Thomas has been a judge for 25 years, and during that time he was quoted as saying, “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” This quote relates to Thomas…