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    Thurgood Marshall Law By Kai Jalen Nugent Throughout the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall blazed the trail for the Civil Rights Movement from two sides of the American Legal System, both as a lawyer, and as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Marshall’s initial rise to fame came as a result of his success as the head lawyer for the Brown family in Brown vs. The Board of Education. Later, Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court, making him the first ever African American Supreme Court Justice in

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    Thurgood Marshall effect Thurgood Marshall is the first African American who joined the supreme court justice. This action lead to various amounts of segregation being extinct to society. There are numerous of people that still believe racism is in the air. Racism is mostly caused from white citizens being mean to African Americans. Marshall’s lifespan changed society past, present, and probably future. Marshall started working during his teenage years for money, but has been treated badly

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    Good Morning I hope someone can please assist with an issue regarding Cameron Thomas. Cameron currently attends Thurgood Marshall. Last year Cameron was place in ROTC and a work program provided by the school life skills class. I started receiving emails that Cameron was marked absent from 6th period class Chief Battle. I talked and emailed several staff at Marshall regarding this issue because, I knew Cameron Thomas was in school those days. I stated to his teacher, “if this is going to cause and

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    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

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    Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argues that because of the dire effect of ‘patriotism’, many look past all of the issues and immoral mistakes hidden in the Constitution. He believed the system was flawed and useless considering slavery, and refused to praise the document. Marshall says, “To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil

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    Thurgood Marshall with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X has shown to be one of the greatest and most influential figures of the American Civil Rights Movement. Marshall was arguably the most influential in the movement's achievements toward racial equality. Thurgood Marshall’s plan of attacking racial inequality through the courts represented a third way of pursuing racial equality

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    Civil Rights activist Thurgood Marshall revolutionized how the United States treats views it’s rights on Black men and women. As a lawyer and prominent Supreme Court justice he fought for Civil Rights and social justice, believed that racial integration was a right for all American citizens. Early in his professional life Marshall diminished racial barriers and overcame resistance despite large oppositions from colleagues and lawmakers. He then became a revolutionary who had the honor of becoming

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    I chose to research Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X because I had already heard of all three of them but did not know exactly what their contributions were to the civil rights movement. Also I thought that they might very well be three of the strongest components to the civil rights movement so it would be interesting to compare and contrast them. Thurgood Marshall was exposed to law from a very early age as he and his dad often discussed court cases that his dad attended

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