The Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court

This true story is based on two African American males who grew up with many similarities but landed a completely different outcome in life. One of the main similarities is their name, Wes Moore. Both Wes Moore’s grew up in a fatherless home, born in the same neighborhood of Baltimore during the 1970’s, and both were handcuffed before age 11. The same question remains. How did one end up as a scholar, veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader and the other one end up serving a life sentence for a robbery that ended in the murder of a police officer? The book reflects how developmental psychology is implemented by focusing on the physical, social, and cultural environments influence developments that occur over time.

What does it take to become a Supreme Court Justice in the United States? It doesn’t matter what race you are; which neighborhood you grew up in or how much you have. From living in a predominately black town, and not know where his next meal is going to coming from, Clarence Thomas has proven that all barriers can be overcame. He was the second African American to serve on the court. Thomas served as a Judge on the “United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit” from 1990 to 1991. After Thurgood Marshall (the first African American to serve on the court) announced his retirement, President George W. Bush elected Thomas to become a candidate for the position. Clarence Thomas has been serving on the Supreme Court for twenty-six years.

Thurgood Marshall was significant as he was the first African-American to be appointed a position in the U.S Supreme Court, in 1967. His significance to civil rights is evident between 1947 and 1967, in one contemporary newspaper he was even referred to as “Mr Civil Rights”. In 1947-1961 Thurgood worked as the NAACP’s lawyer, where he argued his most famous cases – Brown v Topeka (1954) and Browder v Gayle (1956). Furthermore, the appointments by both, President John F. Kennedy and President Johnson, are significant in themselves because he was the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Despite his influence on the civil rights movement, Thurgood took a lot of criticism which effected his attitudes towards other people involved with the civil rights movement and, in general.

The article Higher Education by Gary Smith is about a basketball coach who changed the lives of a whole community. Perry Reese Jr. was a black basketball coach in Berlin, Ohio which used to be one of the most Amish settlements in America. Many in the town wrote him off because of their racist views. What they didn’t know was that one day he was going to be the man that created magic in that small community. He was not only a coach but someone who genuinely cared for all of these people, breaking the traditional views of segregation and life all together.

The current Supreme Court membership is comprised of nine Supreme Court Justices. One of which is the Chief Justice and the other eight are the Associate Justices. The Justices are Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.

He began his career of law after graduating with honors from Lincoln University and graduating first in his class at Howard University. One of his first legal victories was suing the University of Maryland, which he applied to, for denying an African American applicant’s admission based on race. One of his other first cases was Murray v. Pearson, and he was also involved in the famous case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. He became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court after being nominated to the position by John F. Kennedy. Over his years on his career of law, Thurgood Marshall won 29 of the 32 cases he was involved in.

“President Johnson appointed Thurgood as the first African American Supreme court justice.” President Johnson was the one who took a stand, not Thurgood. Thurgood didn’t really take a stand much, other than being the first supreme court justice and supporting the president over countless supreme court cases. President Johnson did most of the work. Really, what Thurgood Marshall did was help the president at the time take a stand against segregation. The Jim Crow laws at the time were being destroyed, with not much help from Thurgood, and a bunch of work from President Johnson. Thurgood just supported the president for a few cases, and that was mostly it. Thurgood didn’t really take a

None of them were overturned by the Supreme Court. After his four years of being President, Lyndon B. Johnson let Thurgood Marshall serve as the first African American US solicitor general. A solicitor is an attorney that is made to argue on the behalf of the federal government before the Supreme Court. He served for 2 years and won 14 out of 19 cases before the Supreme Court.

Before even coming to America, he would always hear stories about how racist and discriminant the educational system was which worried him; he knew that leaving his country and moving out here on his own was a big risk. Even though schools were desegregated, it was still completely split between White people and Colored people. Although he did not remember the name, he discussed the Brown v. Board of Education case and how that was very important to him because even though he was not Black, he still faced a few of the same struggles. As a Brown man, he experienced a lot of racism; from racial slurs being yelled at him to actually getting jumped on his way home. Although he struggled to fit in, he was able to form really solid friendships with people; especially through the love of rock and roll and

Thurgood Marshall is a man that went to court for colored kids and white kids to got to the same school. He went to court in October 1967 and won the trial in 1991.

Clarence Thomas is just the second African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court. Until the very recent confirmations of both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, for the past twenty-five plus years, Thomas had been the last conservative to be named to the current court, which is the complete opposite of his predecessor Justice Thurgood Marshall. Thomas’ confirmation hearings have gone down in history as those containing the most drama. His hearings would produce such intense arguments over race and gender. Thomas is one of the most publicly criticized justices in the history of the Supreme Court. The primary reason for that is the "uncommon" connection between his views and the color of his skin. Many black and white

Timothy Tyson tells the raw and unfiltered truth about African American and the oppression they went through. Mr. Tyson also notes several significant people in black history. Mr. Tyson’s response is so significant because he explains so clearly how African Americans rose up from the oppression and got freedom. With his response, Mr. Tyson show his love for black history and why he got into teaching at the college level.

In 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas to the U.S Supreme Court after the retirement of Thurgood Marshall. As America’s second African American Supreme Court judge, Thomas’ nomination was contentious from the start. Due to Thomas’ conservative political beliefs, many African American and Civil Rights organizations were opposed to Thomas’ appointment. The opposition was little until allegation from a University of Oklahoma law professor, Anita Hill, stirred up major controversy as she came forward with accusations about sexual harassment against Thomas (PBS NewsHour). Hill’s allegation and Thomas’ denial became a hot media topic that generated various responses to the controversy. Using the newspaper articles of the New York Times and a few course texts, I will analyze the hearings and reactions to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy about race, gender, and intersectionality.

There are three women on the Supreme Court, one of whom is Latina, and there is one black justice serving on the Supreme Court (Brown, 2016). This is a major issue. The United States, the “melting pot”, has an extreme lack of diversity in their court system. This is an issue that affects several aspects of society. Decisions made by judges will affect the lives of men, women, and their families. The decisions made by judges can also create law. Unlike political officials, the people do not always have the power to vote judges into their positions. Instead, the people hope that their peers with the power to affect the system choose a candidate that will fight for them. Often times, this does not happen.

He saw how his father become invisible to the injustice of black around him and he decided to get involved. He had a generativity concern on improving black people rights in the world around him (Newman & Newman, 2015). As a young boy, he would watch TV, read articles, and read books regarding what people are doing to change the way blacks are treated. His father would be disappointed and hope he would just stay away for the violence, abuse, and other activist groups. After high school, he went on to Fisk University to be involve in the Freeman Riders and later the Black Panthers. Along the journey, he was kicked, spit on, arrested, and even witness brutal killings and prayed that he would not be killed for his rights.