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    Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice
    Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice
    Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice
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    Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice

    By Lisa Paddock and Carl Rollyson

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    Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP), one of the organizations that helped to advance the rights of African Americans in the 20th century. His pursuit of civil rights reached a high point when, as a lawyer, he helped the NAACP win Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in education in American public schools. Afterward, Thurgood was appointed as a judge in the United States Court of Appeals, then as the first black United States solicitor general and, finally, the first black justice of the United States Supreme Court.

    Perseverance is a quality that Thurgood had in abundance. The grandson of a freed slave and the son of a waiter and a schoolteacher, he managed to obtain an excellent education despite the racial segregation of the American school system. Early in his career as a champion of civil rights, he found it hard to make a living, and he endured not only legal setbacks but also threats on his life. Eventually, Thurgood achieved high office, but even as a Supreme Court justice he continued to fight for the rights of those whom society continued to regard as inferior: blacks, women, and poor people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 20, 2009
    ISBN9781491750186
    Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice
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    Lisa Paddock

    Lisa Paddock is a freelance writer and editor. She is also coauthor (with Carl Rollyson) of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated, published by University Press of Mississippi.

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      Thurgood Marshall - Lisa Paddock

      Copyright © 2009 Carl Rollyson

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Timeline

      Prologue: Perseverance

      CHAPTER 1 A Legacy Of Resistance

      CHAPTER 2 Learning The Law

      CHAPTER 3 A Strategy For Desegregation

      CHAPTER 4 Mr. Civil Rights

      CHAPTER 5 Civil Rights And Uncle Sam

      CHAPTER 6 Victory And Defeat

      CHAPTER 7 Changes

      CHAPTER 8 The Pinnacle

      Summing Up A Life

      Afterword To Parents

      Bibliography

      Glossary

      TIMELINE

      1908:

      July 2: Thoroughgood (later changed to Thurgood) Marshall is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

      1909:

      National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP) is founded.

      1914:

      World War I begins; the United States issues a proclamation of its neutrality.

      1917:

      April 6: The United States declares war on Germany, entering World War I.

      1918:

      November 11: The signing of an armistice treaty ends World War I.

      1925:

      Thurgood enters Lincoln University in Chester, Pennsylvania, the nation’s oldest black college.

      1928:

      October 24: The stock market crashes on Black Thursday, and the Great Depression sets in.

      1929:

      September 4: Thurgood marries Vivian Burey (Buster).

      1930:

      Thurgood’s application to the all-white University of Maryland Law School is rejected.

      Thurgood enters law school at the historically all-black Howard University in Washington, D.C.

      1931:

      Thurgood earns a job as an assistant in the law school library and begins his association with vice dean Charles H. Houston, professor William Hastie, and other lawyers associated with the NAACP.

      1932:

      President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the New Deal, a social and economic program intended to end the Great Depression.

      1933:

      Thurgood graduates from law school, passes the Maryland bar examination, and sets up his own law firm in Baltimore.

      1934:

      Thurgood becomes the attorney for the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP.

      1935:

      Thurgood moves to New York City to begin working full time as an NAACP lawyer.

      1938:

      Thurgood replaces Charles Houston as chief counsel of the NAACP.

      1939:

      September 1 - October 5: Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.

      October: Thurgood is appointed director of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

      1941:

      December 7: The Japanese attack the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, prompting the United States to enter W.W.II.

      1945:

      May 8: Germany surrenders.

      September 2: After the U.S. drops two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders, ending W.W. II.

      1946:

      March 5:

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