Thurgood Marshall

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Thurgood Marshall

• By Aldo Perez Sacramento Bucio

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Introduction

• To start off Thurgood Marshall as you may know,
  was the first African-American to be in the U.S
  Supreme Court. Not only that he was an elite
  lawyer that won many of his argued cases. Also he
  worked in the Civil Rights Movement to argue the
  famous case of Brown v. Board of Education. Here
  is a presentation of his life and his long and
  honored career.

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Early Years

• Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland
  on July 2, 1908
• His father William Marshall, instilled in him
  from youth an appreciation for the U.S
  Constitution and the rule of law.
• When he was in the 2nd grade he thought that his
  original name Thoroughgood was too long and
  shortened it to Thurgood
• As a child, he was punished for his school
  misbehavior by being forced to write copies of
  the constitution, later it got his interest in
  the document.

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Education

• Marshall graduated from Frederick Douglass high
  school in 1926.
• Then from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in
  1930.
• Marshall applied to his hometown law school
  University of Maryland, but the school did not
  accept him because of the segregation policy.

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Law Career

• Marshall received his law degree from the Howard
  University School of Law in 1933.
• The following year he started to work with the
  Baltimore NAACP.
• He then won 2 civil rights cases like Murray v.
  Pearson and Plessy v. Ferguson

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Chief Council of NAACP

• His first Supreme Court case was Chambers v.
  Florida in 1940.
• Appointed as chief he had many cases like Smith
  v. Allwright, Shelley v. Kraemer, Sweatt v.
  Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.
• In total he won 29 out of 32 cases as a lawyer.

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Brown v. Board Of Education

• One of Marshalls most popular cases was Board v.
  Board of Education of Topeka.
• The case in which the Supreme Court ruled that
  separate but equal public education was
  unconstitutional because it could never be equal.
• Marshall argued that school segregation was a
  violation of individual right under the 14th
  Amendment.
• Then on May 17, 1954, chief justice Earl Warren,
  delivered the unanimous ruling We conclude
  that, in the field of public education, the
  doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
  Separate educational facilities are inherently
  unequal."
• After that the Supreme Court reached its
  decision to have school desegregated.

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U.S Supreme Court

• On June 13, 1967, President Johnson appointed
  Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme court following
  the retirement of John C. Clark.
• Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by
  a Senate vote 69-11 on August 31, 1967.
• He was the 96th person to hold the position in
  the Supreme Court.
• Also he was the first African-American appointed
  to the U.S Supreme Court.
• Marshall then served 24 years, compiling a
  liberal record that included strong support for
  Constitutional protection of individual rights,
  especially the rights of criminal suspects
  against the government.

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Death and Legacy

• On January 24th, 1993 Thurgood Marshall died of
  heart failure at the age of 84. He died at the
  National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,
  Maryland.
• He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
• Marshall left all his personal papers and notes
  to the Library of Congress.

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Timeline
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Bibliography

• CHNM- http//chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshal
  l.htm
• Thurgood Marshall- http//www.thurgoodmarshall.com
  /home.htm
• Landmark Cases- http//www.landmarkcases.org/brown
  /marshall.html
• Info Please- http//www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/
  A0831961.html

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The End

• This is the end of my presentation. I hope that
  you very much enjoyed it and learned a lot about
  Marshalls life and career.