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Thurgood Marshall Biography He was the grandson of a slave, Throughgood Marshall, whom he was named after. According to an HBO special, Thourghgood changed his name to Thurgood when he was in elementary shcool because he tired of writing so many letters.
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Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore
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He was denied admission because he was Black. He never forgot or forgave this and later "got even" in a lawsuit against the school, forcing it to legally integrate in 1935.
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Maryland at a Glance: Chronology Donald Gaines Murray registred for school after Thurgood Marshall won the case against the University of Maryland Law School. This is the same school which denied Marshall admittance 5 years before.
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Chambers v. FloridaHis first U.S. Supreme Court Victory
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U.S. Supreme Court Smith v. Allwright
Important case overturning a Texas Democratic party's all-white voting "club". -
Shelley v. Kraemer court case in which racial covenants on real estate was overturned.
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Sweat v. Painter court case in which a the University of Texas, Law school was forced to admit African Americans when the original case was overturned because their attempted at "separate but equal" was not.
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McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
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Brown v. Board of Education
Marshall's most important case, and the case that effectively ended segregation in public schools. -
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Thurgood's second wife, Cecilia, married him on this day, and they later had two sons, Thurgood Marshall, Jr and John W. Marshall.
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President J.F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to this position.
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Equality Speech at Howard Law School
"The following is a speech Marshall gave at the instillation of Wiley Branton to be dean of Howard Law School. Marshall and Branton had been friends for years, since the two had worked side-by-side on the integration of Central High in Little Rock during the late 1950s." Photo taken from http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/gallery/gallery.htm -
