TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 6 P50

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 6 P50 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 478 MARSHALL THURGOOD Thurgood Marshall. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Marshall was born July 2 1908 in Baltimore the son of a Pullman porter and a schoolteacher. He was a graduate of Lincoln University a small all-black college in Pennsylvania and Howard University Law School in Washington . At Howard Marshall excelled under the guidance of Vice Dean Charles Hamilton Houston the first African American to win a case before the . Supreme Court. Houston encouraged his students to become not just lawyers but social engineers who could use the legal system to improve society. Marshall graduated first in his law class in 1933. Marshall s attendance at predominantly black Howard University illustrates the barriers faced by African-Americans during the early twentieth century. Although Marshall wished to attend law school at the University of Maryland a public institution in his home town of Baltimore he was prohibited by law from doing so because of his race. This injustice helped set Marshall on a course of opposing all forms of official segregation that denied equal opportunities to African-Americans. After law school Marshall set up a practice in Baltimore representing indigent clients in civil rights cases. In 1936 his mentor Houston offered him a position with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People naacp and in 1940 Marshall became director of the NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND a position he held until 1961. Determined to eliminate segregation Marshall coordinated a nationwide campaign to integrate higher education. He filed several successful lawsuits against public graduate and professional schools that refused to accept African American students. These suits paved the way for similar cases at the high school and elementary school levels. Marshall also journeyed throughout the deep South traveling 50 000 miles per year to fight jim crow laws a series of laws that provided for racial segregation in the South and to represent criminal .

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