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Thurgood Marshall

abide by its legal interpretations. Thurgood’s first case was with a man name Lloyd Gains. Lloyd Gains tried to enroll at the University of Missouri .The University of Missouri wouldn’t allowed Gains to enroll because of the color of his skin. Thurgood filled a lawsuit against The University of Missouri. Thurgood won the case based on race discrimination. For three more years, Thurgood worked as an assistant special counsel. Thurgood was then appointed to fill Charles Huston position, as lead defense counsel for The NAACP. For the next twenty years, Thurgood Marshall traveled the country defending and helping people. Thurgood Marshall unquine legal style helped him in winning a lot of civil rights cases, based on his legal arguments from The United States Constitution.By 1950 Thurgood Marshall targeted elementary and high school segregation as his next area of importance. Thurgood knew a good education is vital if our young Afro Americans boys and girls are going to succeed in life. Thurgood Marshall hated how Afro American young boys and girls had to attend only colored schools, and the schools were out of their schools districts. The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. The Board of Education, of Topeka Kansas, was so gratifying that the ruling change school segregation nationally. Additionally, it brought drastic changes in other areas of segregation. Thurgood managed to persuade the Supreme Court to unanimously declare segregation in public schools unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. When Thurgood was asked for a definition of “equal “ by Justice Frankfurter, Thurgood said, “Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and the same place”. Additionally, Thurgood fought to win four other Supreme Court segregation cases: public parks, swimming pools, local bus systems, and athletic facilities. In February 1955 Marshall’s wife, Vivian started...

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