Thorogood Marshal

            
             Thurgood Marshal was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore.
             There his father was the country club steward and.
             headwaiter .His mother was a school teacher. He died on January 24,.
             1993 due to hart failure. He served on the Supreme Court for 24.
             years, on June 28, 1991 he announced his retirement due to old age. .
             Thurgood Marshal was the first African-American to serve for the.
             United States Supreme Court. He also led a civil right revolution in.
             the 20th century. Marshal was the least known African-American of.
             the three black leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were.
             much more known than Marshal. Even though his efforts were longer.
             lasting than either one of theres on race relations. .
             Marshal really turned the second half of the century around. .
             When he won the Brown case it started the 1960's civil rights .
             movement that led to the increased number of black graduates as.
             also the increase of black high schools. There was also a sudden.
             raise in the middle-class blacks. Marshal then created new protection.
             laws for women, children, prisoners, and homeless people.
             Thurgood Marshal was legal director of the NAACP before.
             serving for the Supreme court. In 1946 he won the NAACP's.
             Spingarm Medal. Marshal along with Charles Hamilton ( who was the.
             first African American to win a case before the Supreme court ), made.
             a long-term strategy for stopping segregation in schools.
             It was Marshal who stopped legal segregation in the United.
             States. He won so many Supreme court victories that it broke the.
             color line in housing, transportation, and voting which all overturned.
             the Separate-but-Equal apartheid of America life.
             Thurgood Marshal had twenty honary degrees. He was awarded.
             all of them through out his life all at different times. There were even.
             some schools named after him.
             The University of Maryland Law was named after him in his.
             honor. He recieved the Negro Newspaper Publisher Associations.
             Russwurm Medal in 1948.