Thurgood Marshall

In September 2015, Pope Francis urged the United States to abolish the death penalty during an address to Congress. Similar to the previous pope, Pope Francis advocated abolition because “every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes” (“Address of the Holy Father”). Although the Roman Catholic Church now opposes capital punishment, their strong stance for abolition is fairly…

others demanded a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court for the incident in order to understand why they should not receive their commission. However, Chief Justice John Marshall didn’t follow through because he felt the Constitution didn’t grant the Supreme Court the power to do this, even though the Judiciary Act of 1789 did. Marshall realized that Congress had exceeded its power and, according to the Constitution, the decision was left to the Courts (History.com Staff, 2009). This…

"When you 're treated as a fourth-class citizen your whole life, it 's been drilled in that you 're inferior. But I have a great revelation: we all put our pants on the same way, and I proved that I belonged."(Ex-Piston) Earl Lloyd introduced the sport of basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA) to many foreign and colored people around the United States in the 1960s. His impeccable leadership and bravery led him to become the very first black player in the NBA. He encountered…

Warriors Don’t Cry Civil Rights Essay All of the Little Rock 9 students had to have a lot of courage and strength throughout their time at the high school. It all started in september 1957 when 9 black students enrolled in an all- white high school, Central High. Before then May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education declared segregation in schools unconstitutional. These little rock 9 students were basically a test to see if integration in schools would work. Although, on the first day of…

blacks in the south started to move northward in search of jobs in Northern cities. We saw this from 1950-60 which gave Blacks much more political power by organizing in communities. In 1950, the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, led by Thurgood Marshall, fought racial segregation in court. This led to the 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This was only the start of the civil…

Capital Punishment also known as the Death Penalty is a legal and in some states, countries illegal process where a person is put to death by the state for a consequence and punishment for a crime they have done. The Judicial state of someone be punished for their crime is known as a death sentence, however the actual state of it is an execution. The crimes that are down resulting in the death penalty are crimes that are known as both capital crimes and or offenses. Today there are “.…

If a judge yelled “Guilty, for a crime you didn’t commit!.”, that would be extremely shocking right? Killing anyone for any reason is terrible by all means, especially if the person being killed is possibly innocent. The death penalty should be illegal because it is morally wrong, someone could be falsely accused, and killing someone should be considered "cruel" under the Constitution. Many of history’s most decorated men have been in favor of having the death penalty abolished. In an Apr. 9,…

Why Students have the Freedom to Undisrupted Speech in Schools A protest influenced a major Supreme Court case. The protest occurred in “November 1965, about [one-hundred and forty] anti-Vietnam War groups staged a ‘march on Washington,’ which drew an estimated twenty-five thousand participants” (Johnson 1). This compelled John Tinker, Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt, to take a stand against the Vietnam War. The Tinker’s and Eckhardt protest reached the Supreme Court, on claims to the…

knowledge of the races according to societal influences. Ultimately this study was productive because it demonstrates that black children were taught to “ascribe negative attributes with their own race.” Furthermore this study was a key argument for Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP lawyers in Brown v. Board of Education. Coming to conclusions including “separating [African-American children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of…

The Civil War had ended and Abraham Lincoln, the President of The United States at the time had just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation was delivered on January 1, 1863 and it declared the freedom of slaves in the United States. The release of this document was just the start of the post-civil war era and led to many factors that contributed to racism in America not only politically but economically and socially as well. The beginning of this post-civil war era marked…