Thurgood Marshall
The first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall was one of the most important people for the Civil Rights Movement to help Africian-Amercians have equal rights even in schools, that was his goal. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908 and his father [Willam Marshall] who put the Constitution and the rule of law. After High school in 1925 he wanted to follow his brothers [William Aubrey Marshall] footsteps by going to, Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. And at the school he didint know that some of his classmates were future Black leaders such as Langston Hughes [the future President of Ghana],just before gradution he married his wife Vivian, but sadly she died in their 25 year by cancer in 1955. After that he wanted to to applied at University of Maryland Law School, but was denied because of his color skin that haunt him by the reason. But he was accepted in Howard University Law School after finshing it he was allowed for his own cases as a lawer becuase for showing off to the Supreme Court! Then his first case was to sue the University he was going to go for adimting to have a black student gradute from their, and won. He then had many more cases won then any other Amercian lawer in the Supreme Court of 14 out of 19 cases that brought the attetion of John F. Kennedy as making Marshall to the U.S court. In to help colord people in schools be in with whites, to be equal for them to live. Before retrienment he took cases of racial discrimination in the country, after winning he was a legacy in the court and died January 24, R.I.P.