Thurgood Marshall

the least. There have been many Justices that would more accurately be called significant to the Supreme Court. Even Scalia notes in his opinions the hallowed reputations of men like Justices John Marshall and Joseph Story and no one can dispute the significance of other Justices like Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren. It is not in doubt that Justice Scalia is one of the…

For over 60 years, students of all color and race have been integrated in all public and private schools. The Brown vs. Board of Education case had a significant impact to modern day education due to opportunity growth for African Americans and their peers. This case helped recognize the nation’s education system flaw that separate was not equal and the social division was not only unfair, but robbed African American students possibility of advancement and changed history for all students…

There are numerous problems I would like to fix within my community and the world. My generation is the future, so everything around us today is directly going to affect us. Right now, it is as if we are living in a sink with no drain. Sure, the little things wouldn't immediately impact us, but after a while we will be wading through the water of problems, and not long after that drowning in them. Parents are leaving their children to take care of the problems of today. Changes need to be made…

(Nagel, 2001). The Hopewood case: In 1996, the Fifth Court of Appeals ruled against affirmative action in the Hopewood case. The court decided that race or ethnicity could not be used as a deciding factor for college. This case involved a white woman who was denied access to college even though her test scores were higher than blacks and Hispanics that were accepted. (Nagel, 2001). Proposition 209: In 1996, an anti-affirmative action law was passed in California called Proposition 209.…

important case where the legal and education arm of NAACP continued to press against discrimination of African American in education. Heman Sweat had applied to join a white University of Texas Law School because black law schools were in existence. Thurgood Marshall sued the University for discriminating against the black race in education, where the case reached the US Supreme Court in 1950. The Supreme Court ruled that the University practiced blatant inequalities, and hastily established a…

____________________________________________________________________ 3) Briefly discuss what types of racial discrimination occurred throughout the United States during the years following the end of the Civil War and through the 1960s. What were these customs or laws called? Use specific examples. Explain WHY these types of customary discrimination were so hard to battle and overcome. Summarize the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. Explain what type of society this decision helped to create.…

graduating Kagan served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1986 to 1987. Kagan also clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United Supreme Court in 1987 (Biographies of Current Justices of the Supreme Court, 2016).In addition to clerking for Mikva and Marshall Kagan also worked for Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign. Shortly after Dukakis lost the campaign she moved to the private sector to work as an attorney at the…

The United States judicial system is a symbol of liberty by providing legal decisions to enforce laws and the freedoms of the governed people. This particular branch of the United States government affects the everyday life of its American citizens. Through history this branch of legal administration has lived up to its promise and provided ground breaking decisions for the betterment of the people and its society. Unfortunately, with political influence and bureaucratic ritualism, the system…

For the overview or my outline if you will for the project; I’m going to provide a brief background summary of his early years of his life to see what kind of family Mr. Willis Virgil McCall comes from. I’m going to touch base on his childhood as well to see how he grew up. All these credentials come into play when we get to talking about the book “Devil in the grove” by Gilbert King. Apparently, the book takes place down in Lake County in Florida, in the late 40’s early 50’s when the Jim Crowe…

Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas Born June 23, 1948 in Pin Point near Savannah, Georgia, the second of three children to M.C. Thomas and Leola Williams was named Clarence Thomas. He was a descendant of freed slaves and his family spoke Gullah as a first language. Thomas primarily was raised by his grandfather, Myers Anderson around the age of nine after his mother and siblings were displaced due to a house fire. Raised Roman Catholic, he greatly contemplated going into priesthood as a youth.…