Marshall Thurman have you ever heard of em? No? Well
Born July 2nd, 1908 in Baltimore Maryland until his death on Jan. 24, 1993. Marshall attended Baltimore's Colored High (which was later renamed Frederick Douglass High School), where he was an above-average student and put his finely honed skills of argument to use as a star member of the debate team. After graduating from high school in 1926, Marshall attended Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania. There, he joined a remarkably distinguished student body that included Kwame Nkrumah, the future president of Ghana; Langston Hughes, the great poet; and Cab Calloway, the famous jazz singer just to name a few.
After graduating from Lincoln with honors in 1930, Marshall applied to the University of Maryland Law School. Despite being overqualified academically, Marshall was rejected because of his race, that alone shows and prove validation from oppressors means nothing. However this firsthand experience with discrimination in education made a lasting impression on Marshall and helped determine the future course of his career.
In 1941 he worked as counsel for the national association(NAACP) for the advancement of colored people, to defend those falsely accused of crimes because of their race. Which was his ultimate mission over all things.
In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. He was instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American associate justice of the Supreme court to hold the position and served for 24 years, until 1991. Over those yrs he's argued 32 civil rights cases in the supreme court system alone and lost only 3. For that reason alone he'll forever be considered a black historian & a real embodiment of ROYALTY.
Quote:
Our whole constitution heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Ps if you wanna learn more about em check out “Marshall” which is a movie about his life, starring the late Chadwick boseman
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