Thurgood+Marshall


 * By: Tanisha Davis, Grade 6** **and Cynquetta Burke, Grade 5**

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Maryland. His mother thought he should be proud of his race. When he played jokes in school he had to memorize the United States Constitution. His father, William Marshall, took him to trials. He taught himmedia type="youtube" key="rdIUmQAyCXA" height="270" width="436" align="left" to debate for what was right. His mother sold her wedding and engagement rings to pay his expenses for law school.

Thurgood Marshall became a leader of the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP. In 1954 the NAACP was fighting for the Browns from the Brown vs. the Board of Education case. The Browns were a Black family. They had a daughter who couldn’t go to a white school because she was Black. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP won their case before the Supreme Court. Now, Blacks and whites can go to the same schools. It changed the laws about segregation in public schools. Now schools can’t be legally segregated.