Thurgood Marshall Case Study

Judge Neil Gorsuch is President Donald Trump's selection to fill the Supreme Court seat that was left open a year ago by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch graduated from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford, was a clerk for two Supreme Court justices and worked for a period of time at the Department of Justice. He attended Harvard Law with former President of the United States Barack Obama. Gorsuch has served on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Colorado since 2006.

When Thugood Marshall presented himself to the Supreme Court, he conducted himself calmly and powerfully. He explained to the Supreme Court that the only way for the law to fairly rule against him is if they could find that whites were superior to blacks. Thurgood explained that black children and white children would play outside but then are separated when attending school. They would hold hands and play ball when they weren?t confined to a classroom. The

Board of Education was actually the name given to five different cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court already. All of the cases were about segregation in public schools. The 5 cases were Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Briggs v. Elliott, Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward County (VA.), Bolling v. Sharpe, and Gebhart v. Ethel. Even though there were many differences in the details of the cases, they all dealt with segregation in public schools. They all happened around the same time so the Supreme Court decided to hear them together. When the cases were heard in 1952, the Court put all five cases under the name of Brown v. Board of Education. Thurgood Marshall argued the case before the Court himself. Although he raised a variety of issues, the most common issue was that separate school systems for blacks and whites were very unequal, which violates the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment.. Based on sociological tests and other data, he also argued that segregated school systems were used to and purposely made black children feel less important than white children, and this kind of system should not be

Board of Education they talk about white kids schools and colored kid schools. They talk about how it's separate but equal. That they still get a chance at an education but they have to be in a different building. "Chief Justice Earl Warren, reading his first major opinion from the bench, said: "We conclude, unanimously, that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” It really makes sense it's not equal.in this case they were guaranteeing that black kids and white kids would got to the same school. Which would give immediate access to what it would be like. By going to the same school they would experience that they haven't experienced

“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

From the beginning of his career in law to his service for the American people as Supreme Court Justice, Marshall has left numerous indelible revisions among the American people that increased equality and diminished the intensity of racism in the United States of

What if segregation was a part of our everyday lives, as common as it is to brush one’s teeth. Thanks to Thurgood Marshall, today’s generation will never know the horrors of segregation and extreme racism. Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the court's first African American justice. Marshall experienced segregation growing up, going to exclusively black schools. When applying to a school that was below his league yet being rejected because of his color, he made it his mission to seek civil rights. he guided the litigation that destroyed Jim Crow segregation and “crafted a distinctive jurisprudence marked by uncompromising liberalism, unusual attentiveness to practical considerations beyond the formalities of law, and an indefatigable willingness to dissent” (“THURGOOD MARSHALL” 1). Thurgood Marshall heavily influenced civil rights through his involvement in the NAACP and rulings during his time in the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He is probably more known as the first African American justice. Marshall was born on July second, in Baltimore, MD. He went to Lincoln University after he graduated high school. Vivian Burey was his wife and they were married for 25 years until she lost her life due to cancer. Together they had two children named John and Thurgood. Marshall attended law school at Howard University. But before that he tried to apply to University of Maryland but they turned him away because of his race. He later than sued the University of Maryland because they were still discriminating against people of color. That happened to be his first big case. A big role model in Thurgood Marshalls life

The associate Justice of the Supreme Court is Clarence Thomas. Thomas is African American male born in Pin Point, Ga on June 23, 1948. Thomas had an older sister and a younger brother. Thomas father walks out of his life at an early age. His mother eventually sent him and his brother away to live with her parents in Savannah, Ga. Thomas attended the College of Holy Cross and graduated from Yale school of law. Thomas has accomplished many accomplishments in his lifetime, that’s why I find Thomas one of the most influential individuals to serve in the courts. He was nominated by bush to serve a seat on the U.S. court of appeals for the District of Columbia. He was then nominated to fill Marshall’s seat. He was the second black man to serve on the court. He is also a strong believer in the second and tenth amendment. Seeing Thomas reach his goals is amazing and makes it great for other black males like myself to look up to him and know it’s possible for us as well.

When Earl Warren came to Washington, D.C. to assume the role of Chief Justice, he brought with him an awe of the Supreme Court. That was one reason that in his first few months, he played a passive role on the Court as he held back hoping to get a better sense of how the Court operated and what his role would be (White, 1982). However, he would not be allowed to continue to take that inactive stance for very long. By December, 1953, five cases came along that were lumped together and were thereafter known as Brown v. Board of Education. It was this case that established Earl Warren’s role on Supreme

staunch republican hoped to sway the court right for the first time in decades. While, he was

This article was about president Obama meeting with a few senators to discuss how the empty seat of former justice Antonin Scalia died should be considered. Although it is the president’s duty to nominate a supreme court justice, Republican senators have been critical in that it could affect the balance of the Supreme Court since the elections are near. However the president and other democrats argue that it is a law stated by the constitution that the president has the right to appoint a justice that the senate could approve. Because of this, the president asked republican senators to submit names for consideration, to which none of the republicans responded. Although the grand decision has not been decided yet, Obama is nonetheless still considering and studying his list of potential nominees.

on the opposite side of a decision. Conversely, Thomas has voted with Scalia 96% of the

On the thirteenth of October I was lucky enough to be able to view the movie Marshall with my African American studies class. I watched the movie in the Amc Loews movie theatre The movie was based on one of the many court cases that Thurgood was apart of. The movie gave a realistic depiction of what it was like during Thurgood’s time. It is important to note that the movie only showed one case that Thurgood carried out and this case was chosen not only because he won it but also because it showed how hard it was for him to speak out for the injustices going on at the time. Following the movie I was honored by the appearance of Rahsaan Hall who made a visit to my African American studies class to discuss not only his own life but also Thurgood Marshall, his background of being a lawyer made him familiar with Thurgood’s work. He studied went much farther than the movie and was able to confirm that the movie gave an accurate depiction of Thurgood Marshall. Today Hall much works for the Racial justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts which address racial injustices much like Thurgood Marshall. He

Judicial Branch. Being the first African American to be on the Supreme Court, which is the most powerful court in the United States, made many important influential decisions on legal cases. The most important and well-known one was the case of Brown vs. Board of Education. This case’s victory ended all racial segregation in all public schools and so increased the number of African American high school and college graduates. That was not all; he also won many other cases that helped to stop segregation in housing, transportation, and voting. Overall, Marshall influenced and affected many decisions made by the Supreme