Thurgood Marshall Research Paper
Gibson Larry S, Young Thurgood: The Making Of A Supreme Court Justice
59 John Glen Drive: Amherst, New York 14228-2119. 2012, Pp.413.
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second child born. His father, William Marshall, the grandson of a slave, worked as a steward at an exclusive club. His mother, Norma, was a kindergarten teacher. One of William Marshall's favorite pastimes was to listen to cases at the local courthouse before returning home to rehash the lawyers arguments with his sons. His family enjoyed a comfortable, middle class existence. Marshall's parents placed great emphasis on education, encouraging Thurgood and his brother to think and learn. Whenever Thurgood got into trouble at …show more content…
Marshall was to married Vivian Buster Burey in 1929, and the couple remained married until her death in 1955. Shortly thereafter, Marshall married Cecilia Suyat, his secretary at the NAACP they had two sons, Thurgood Jr. and John Marshall. Thurgood Marshall stands alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as one of the greatest and most important figures of the American Civil Rights Movement. And although he may be the least popularly celebrated of the three, Marshall was arguably the most instrumental in the movement's achievements toward racial equality. Marshall's strategy of attacking racial inequality through the courts represented a third way of pursuing racial equality, more pragmatic than King's soaring rhetoric and less polemical than Malcolm X's strident separatism. In the aftermath of Marshall's death, an obituary read, we make movies about Malcolm X, we get a holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, but every day we live with the legacy of Justice Thurgood …show more content…
Thurgood had a huge impact of black history, Thurgood was a good role model to African Americans, portraying good morals and values dealing with marriage. He was married straight out of college and stayed married to the same person through trials and tribulations for 25 years until she died from cancer. He taught blacks how to endure and be persistent when facing racism and injustice. Even though he was denied admission from University of Maryland Law School because he was black, he didn't give up on his dreams. That same year, he applied for and was accepted to Howard University Law
59 John Glen Drive: Amherst, New York 14228-2119. 2012, Pp.413.
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second child born. His father, William Marshall, the grandson of a slave, worked as a steward at an exclusive club. His mother, Norma, was a kindergarten teacher. One of William Marshall's favorite pastimes was to listen to cases at the local courthouse before returning home to rehash the lawyers arguments with his sons. His family enjoyed a comfortable, middle class existence. Marshall's parents placed great emphasis on education, encouraging Thurgood and his brother to think and learn. Whenever Thurgood got into trouble at …show more content…
Marshall was to married Vivian Buster Burey in 1929, and the couple remained married until her death in 1955. Shortly thereafter, Marshall married Cecilia Suyat, his secretary at the NAACP they had two sons, Thurgood Jr. and John Marshall. Thurgood Marshall stands alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as one of the greatest and most important figures of the American Civil Rights Movement. And although he may be the least popularly celebrated of the three, Marshall was arguably the most instrumental in the movement's achievements toward racial equality. Marshall's strategy of attacking racial inequality through the courts represented a third way of pursuing racial equality, more pragmatic than King's soaring rhetoric and less polemical than Malcolm X's strident separatism. In the aftermath of Marshall's death, an obituary read, we make movies about Malcolm X, we get a holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, but every day we live with the legacy of Justice Thurgood …show more content…
Thurgood had a huge impact of black history, Thurgood was a good role model to African Americans, portraying good morals and values dealing with marriage. He was married straight out of college and stayed married to the same person through trials and tribulations for 25 years until she died from cancer. He taught blacks how to endure and be persistent when facing racism and injustice. Even though he was denied admission from University of Maryland Law School because he was black, he didn't give up on his dreams. That same year, he applied for and was accepted to Howard University Law