Thurgood Marshal

Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice
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| |Born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson ofa | |
| |slave. His father, William Marshall, instilled in him from youth an appreciation for | |
| |the United StatesConstitution and the rule of law. After completing high school in | |
| |1925, Thurgood followed his brother, William Aubrey Marshall, at the historically| |
| |black Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His classmates at Lincoln | |
| |included adistinguished group of future Black leaders such as the poet and author | |
| |Langston Hughes, the future President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and musician Cab| |
| |Calloway. Just before graduation, he married his first wife, Vivian "Buster" Burey. | |
| |Their twenty-fiveyear marriage ended with her death from cancer in 1955. | |

| |In 1930, he applied to the University of Maryland Law School, but was deniedadmission because he was Black. This was an event that was to |
| |haunt him and direct his future professional life. Thurgood sought admission and was accepted at the Howard University Law Schoolthat same |
| |year and came under the immediate influence of the dynamic new dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, who instilled in all of his students the |
| |desire to apply the tenets of...