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24 de ene. de 2017 · U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was a giant of the civil rights movement, and his impressive achievements number in the dozens. Here are 20 things to know about about the first...
- He Wasn't Always Thurgood.
- He Learned About Law from His Father.
- Marshall Risked His Life While Fighting Civil Rights Battles.
- His Legacy Is Still debated.
Thoroughgood Marshall was born in Maryland in 1908. Young Thoroughgood would eventually change his name to Thurgood. He once admitted, “By the time I reached the second grade, I got tired of spelling all that out and had shortened it to Thurgood.”
As a child in Baltimore, Marshall developed an interest in the law when his father William, a country club steward, took him to observe legal arguments at local courts. Thurgood and his father then had lengthy discussions around the dinner table during which Thurgood’s father fought every statement his son made. Justice Marshall saidof his father i...
While working for the NAACP in 1946, Marshall traveled to Columbia, Tennessee to defend a group of African-American men. Marshall and his colleagues feared for their safety after the trial and tried to leave town fast. But, according to biographer Wil Haygood, they were ambushed by locals on the road to Nashville. Marshall was arrested on false cha...
Marshall had a perfect record of supporting affirmative action and opposing capital punishment during his tenure on the Supreme Court. But he grew frustrated with the Court in the 1980s and announced his retirement in 1991. Then, in 2010, President Barack Obama nominated one of Marshall’s former clerks to the Supreme Court. During Elena Kagan’s con...
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29 de may. de 2024 · Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and civil rights activist who was the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Supreme Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
23 de jun. de 2023 · Thurgood Marshall, born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, was a renowned American civil rights attorney and jurist. He dedicated his life to fighting for racial equality and justice. Marshall’s exceptional legal career includes serving as the chief counsel for the NAACP and arguing the landmark case Brown v.
13 de dic. de 2023 · Interesting Thurgood Marshall Facts. Thurgood Marshall: Explore his birth secrets; Thurgood wasn’t always Thurgood; Marshall and his academic career; Thurgood and his interest in law: He learned about law from his father; Thurgood was mentored by Charles Hamilton Houston; Thurgood in 1935: He and Houston brought suit against the ...
Thurgood Marshall (Baltimore, 2 de julio de 1908 - Bethesda, 24 de enero de 1993) fue juez de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos desde octubre de 1967 hasta octubre de 1991, el primer afroestadounidense elegido para el puesto.
Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice. He is best known for arguing the historic 1954 Brown v.
