THURGOOD MARSHAL IS GOOD

1. 1908-1993
By: Emily Worobel

2.  Thurgood Marshall grew up in Old West
Baltimore.
 He was the grandson of an African American
slave.
 As a child he attended segregated public
schools.
 As a teenager he worked in the Pennsylvania
hat shop to make money.

3.  He was denied from admission to University of
Maryland Law School (UMLS) because of his
race.
 He commuted to Howard University Law
School where Charles Hamilton instilled in him
the desire to apply tenants of the U.S
Constitution to all Americans.
 Practiced law in Boltimore after his 1973
graduation from Howard.

4.  He joined NAACP in 1938.
 He won 29 out 0f 32 U.S. Supreme Court cases
from 1938- 1961.
 He became countries “greatest civil rights
lawyer and constitutional lawyer of the
twentieth century.”

5.  As an African American in racial times, he
became the first African American to be part of
the U.S Supreme Court.
 Even in racial times he as an African American
succeeded in such an important roll.

6.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Mar
shall
 http://www.pennsylvaniaavenuebaltimore.co
m/attractions/marshallhome.html
 http://www.mccsc.edu/~jcmslib/mlk/marsh
all/biography.htm