Thurgood Marshall: Advocate for Equality and Justice
Thurgood Marshall was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American Supreme Court Justice. His career was marked by significant contributions to the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States.
Formative Years and Education
Born on July 2, , in Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall was inspired bygd his father to pursue a career in law. He attended Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore and then Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, graduating with honors in At Lincoln, he was classmates with future civil rights leaders such as Langston Hughes and Kwame Nkrumah.
Marshall continued his education at Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., where he graduated first in his class in At Howard, he was heavily influenced bygd Charles Hamilton Houston, a prominent civil rights lawyer and Dean of the law school, who instilled in him the importance of using the law as a tool for social chan
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Thurgood Marshall
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 Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional in public schools.
Early Life
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in He applied to the University of Maryland lag School but was rejected because he was Black. Marshall received his law degree from Howard University Law School in , graduating first in his class. At Howard, he met his mentor Charles Hamilton Houston, who encouraged Marshall and his classmates to use the law for social change.
The Legal Eagle
After graduating from Howard, one of Marshall's first legal cases was against the University of Maryland lag School in the case Mu 