Thurgood Marshall Research Paper

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland July 2, 1908 and he grew up in a prosperous home in Baltimore also. Father William Marshall worked as a steward in a all white country club. Mother Norma Marshall worked as a teacher for kindergarteners and his grandfather was a slave who gained freedom from escaping the South during the Civil War. He became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court, he was in the Civil Rights Activist, a judge & lawyer. He went to Colored High and Training school later called Frederick Douglass high school, Lincoln University, and Howard University school of Law. He got interested into law because of his father and brother having arguments at the dinner table when their dad would come back home …show more content…
Johnson Kennedy’s successor appointed Marshall to serve as the first black U.S. solicitor general, with two years of being solicitor he won 14 out of the 19 cases he had. In 1967 President Johnson nominated Thurgood to serve on the bench by October he was moved up to be a Supreme Court justice, him becoming the first African American to serve on the nation's highest court. He later joined liberal Supreme Court by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who aligned with Thurgood’s viewing on politics and and Constitution. He consistently supported rulings keeping a strong protection on individual rights and the liberal interpretations of controversial social issues. Part of the majority that ruled in favor of the right to abortion in the 1973 case Roe V. Wade, 1972 case Furman V. Georgia that led to De Facto Moratorium on death penalty, Marshall gave his opinion on it by saying that it was unconstitutional in circumstances. Throughout his 24 years on the court republican presidents appointed eight consecutive justices, he gradually became an isolated liberal member of an increasingly conservative court. For the part time on the bench he largely relegated to issuing strongly worded dissents as the court had reinstated the death penalty, limited affirmative, and abortion …show more content…
as of one of the greatest and most important to the American Civil Rights Movement. Even though he isn’t that popular he was the most instrumental in the movement achievements toward racial equality. His strategies toward attacking the racial inequality through the courts represented third way of pursuing racial equality, more pragmatic than King’s rhetoric and less polemical than Malcolm X’s strident separatism. After Marshall’s death and obituary was made that said “We make movies about Malcolm X, we get holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but we live with the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall”. The changes of his work was segregation was lifted for all public schools and other cases he did helped beat racism against the blacks. The actions that he made had a important impact on society today by stopping the segregation in public schools for colored blacks and many other crimes that were against colored blacks because of their race. The changes with the Brown V. Board of Education case helped colored kids to get the same exact learning as white kids and be able to go to the same schools as whites without any arguing. The work that Thurgood Marshall did can still be seen in today’s