1. Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King fought all his life for equal rights for Afro Americans, but Thurgood Marshall help elevate the Afro American civil rights struggles through legal precedents and timely court decisions. ... Thurgood Marshall devised a legal strategy based on The United States Constitution; he forced rights to be extended equally to even the poorest and most disadvantaged citizens. ... In 1935 Thurgood and his friend and mentor Charles Huston won their first civil rights case Murray v. ... Civil Rights" was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore Maryland. ... While attending Lincoln University, ...
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