Thurgood Marshall

Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, however, regarding his stances, Thomas is practically the “anti-Thurgood”. Thomas approaches constitutional interpretation of the law through the “originalist” perspective, meaning this “philosophy calls for interpreting the Constitution by looking to the words in the document” (American progress). Thomas is one of the many Roman Catholics sitting on the Court and is also widely considered the most conservative.…

Noting Justice Scalia’s work on Constitutional interpretation, two competing approaches will be discussed. According to Justice Scalia, there are four approaches to Constitutional interpretation: Textualism, Strict Constructivism, Legislative intent, and Living Constitution. However, the most prominent approaches to Statutory and Constitutional interpretation are textualism and living Constitution. Justice Scalia makes a case for textualism. He explains in his essay “A Matter of Interpretation,”…

did not accept to admit black students. However, in 1936, the Court of Appeals decided that black people must be accepted because there wasn’t any other law schools in Maryland for black students. Lawyers Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall won the case even though Marshall had been denied admission himself. In 1938, the second case “Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada” was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that…

political cartoon offered by the module is from the Chronicle and it connects the case of Brown v. Board to Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the confederate states during the civil war. Remarking similarly, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights attorney responsible for the Brown case, believed its decision would further the steps set forward by Lincoln by ending all forms of segregation (Pohlmann 24-25). The second cartoon, published in the Arkansas…

Courts had ruled against cases like that of Irene’s for a long time so it was not entirely a surprise when the ruling was not in her favor. However, Irene Morgan’s case taken up by lawyer Thurgood Marshall and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and they an appeal on her behalf in the U.S Supreme Court who then heard her case. With the help of her attorneys and the NAACP, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Irene’s…

The Supreme Court, then decided to fit all five cases under the name Brown v. Board of Education. Thurgood Marshall deliberately and very determined, fought the case the case before the Court. Marshall pointed out various questioning decisions taken in the “separate but equal” action. However, the most important one was that schools divided by racial reason were everything but equal, and therefore…

Brown & NAACP Challenge Segregation in Kansas, Supreme Court Rules Segregation as Unconstitutional by Brown V. Bard Imagine having to walk a mile everyday just to go to school when there’s a school only seven blocks away. This is what third grader Linda Brown has had to do every day. This is why, when the Brown family tried to enroll their kids in a segregated school and were denied enrollment, have resorted to filing a lawsuit against the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education. The district court…

Colored People, an organization headed by Charles Houston founded in 1909 and their mission was to end segregation through the courts. Thurgood Marshall was doing just that and became symbolic leader of the organization due to him winning 29 of 32 argued cases. Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka which might of been the most significant Supreme Court case argued by Marshall in fight to end segregation. Sit-ins were non-violent protest in which both blacks and whites attempt to desegregate…

statutes. Education Code, Section 8003, 8004, 16004, 16005, 16601. The acts of the California school district officials were performed under “color of state law.” The role of social and political influences on the Federal Court decision came from Thurgood Marshall, who wrote the NAACP’s friend of the court brief for the case. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American Jewish Congress, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Japanese American Citizens League were…

The Civil Rights Movement is when all of the African American community joined together and fought for their equal rights. Some non African Americans also helped the African Americans, this changed the face of our country in one of the most important events in American history. Also The Civil Rights Movement took place from 1956 to 1968 in the south in the United States such as Georgia, Alabama, Washington DC, and also Maryland. The African Americans led marches and also made protests. The…