ed a lot of problems. First, he and the Biology teacher were constantly feuding. Second, Thurgood failed the Biology course and was thrown out of college twice for fraternity pranks. During Thurgood’s junior year, he met and eventually married his first wife Vivian Buster Burey. Vivan was a beautiful and energetic woman. Thurgood met Vivian on a weekend trip to the University of Pennsylvania. While attending Lincoln University, Thurgood showed little interest in civil rights issues. Thurgood would get into heated debates with fellow students on his indifferences. Thurgood was ask questions pertainting to his williness to help the civil rights struggles such as; did he ever participate in sit ins at restaurants or schools to help the segregation challenge, or did he volunteer his services to help any Afro American organizations. Thurgood big test occurred when the Lincoln University faculty wanted to be integrated. Thurgood voted with the majority upperclassmen to keep the faculty all white. Eventually, his classmates wanted to change Thurgood’s mind when the school voted again. This time a lot of prominent upperclassmen approached Thurgoood among them were; Cab Calloway who became a famous cabaret dancer, Langston Hughes The famous poet and writer, U Simpson Tate, who later worked with Thurgood on civil rights cases, and Nnamdi Azikiwe who became president of Nigeria. Thurgood was still undecided about what to do. Thurgood remembers the days his mother and father would talk to him about how Afro Americans must stay united and stamp out segregation in any way possible. Thurgood was still undecided, so he went to his favorite professor sociologist Robert M. Labaree. Labaree told Thurgood fighting segregation is a must and the faculty should be integrated. When the decision on the integration of the faculty came up this time, Thurgood voted for the integration, and two years later the faculty was integrated. By 1930 Thurgo...
