Thurgood Marshall
...ly moved to New York in 1909 but retuned to Baltimore when he was six. In 1925 he completed high school at the age of sixteen. He attended Lincoln University and majored in American Literature and Philosophy. He graduated in 1930. Because of all the racial discrimination he faced and encountered, he knew he had to do something to make a difference. He decided to go to law school and applied to the University of Maryland’s Law School, but was rejected because of his race. A few months later, he applied to Howard University Law School in Washington D.C. and was accepted (Lisa Aldred, page 37). After graduating from Law School, Thurgood practiced law in Baltimore, Maryland from 1933 to 1940. He worked long days and nights for free to help blacks fight against racism. In 1934, he also worked for the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP (Lisa Aldred, page 45). Because of all the discrimination and racial dealing blacks dealt with in New York, he moved to New York in 1936 to work as a staff lawyer for the NAACP. The NAACP fought for the rights of blacks. Thurgood Marshall grew up sheltered from racism as a child, but as he grew older he began to see and experience racism. This led him to become one of the best lawyers of all times. He knew from his own experience he had to help change the way blacks were treated and educated. Marshall knew he had to convince the United States Supreme Court that America’s segregated school system was unconstitutional. If he lose, black children would still receive a second rate education. Thurgood wanted to make the laws equal for all races. President Lyndon Johnson appointed him Solicitor General between 1965 and 1967 (Lisa Aldred, page 97). He won 14 out of 19 cases he argued for the US Government. Most of these cases were civil right issues. Some of Marshall’s accomplishments were, Shelly vs. Kramer in 1948. The Supreme Court passed a law that blacks could now move into places that were only limited to white families. In 1950 he won the Supreme Court victory of Sweat vs. Painter and McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State to allow these black...