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Thurgood Marshall July 2 1908 – January 24 1993 Was An American Jurist And The First African American To Serve On The Supreme Court Of The United States. Before Becoming A Judge He Was A Lawyer Who Was Best Remembered For His High Success Rate In Arguing Before The Supreme Court And For The Victory In Brown V. Board Of Education. Marshall Was Born In Baltimore Maryland On July 2 1908. His Original Name Was Thoroughgood But He Shortened It To Thurgood In Second Grade. His Father William Marshall Instilled In Him An Appreciation For The Constitution Of The United States And The Rule Of Law. 1 Additionally As A Child He Was Punished For His School Misbehavior By Being Forced To Read The Constitution Which He Later Said Piqued His Interest In The Document. Marshall Was A Descendant Of Slaves. 2 Marshall Was Married Twice To Vivian "Buster" Burey From 1929 Until Her Death In February 1955 And To Cecilia Suyat From December 1955 Until His Own Death In 1993. He Had Two Sons From His Second Marriage 3 Thurgood Marshall Jr. Who Is A Former Top Aide To President Bill Clinton And John W. Marshall Who Is A Former United States Marshals Service Director And Since 2002 Has Served As Virginia Secretary Of Public Safety Under Governors Mark Warner And Tim Kaine. Education Marshall Graduated From Lincoln University In Pennsylvania In 1930. Afterward Marshall Wanted To Apply To His Hometown Law School The University Of Maryland School Of Law But The Dean Told Him That He Would Not Be Accepted Due To The School's Segregation Policy. Later As A Civil Rights Litigator He Successfully Sued The School For This Policy In The Case Of Murray V. Pearson. Instead Marshall Sought Admission And Was Accepted At Howard University. He Was Influenced By Its New Dean Charles Hamilton Houston Who Instilled In His Students The Desire To Apply The Tenets Of The Constitution To All Americans. Marshall Was A Member Of Alpha Phi Alpha The First Intercollegiate Black Greek-Letter Fraternity Established By African American Students In 1906. Law Career Main Article Murray V. Pearson Marshall Received His Law Degree From Howard In 1933 And Set Up A Private Practice In Baltimore. The Following Year He Began Working With The Baltimore NAACP. He Won His First Major Civil Rights Case Murray V. Pearson 169 Md. 478 1936 . This Involved The First Attempt To Chip Away At Plessy V. Ferguson A Plan Created By His Co-Counsel On The Case Charles Hamilton Houston. Marshall Represented Donald Gaines Murray A Black Amherst College Graduate With Excellent Credentials Who Had Been Denied Admission To The University Of Maryland Law School Because Of Its Separate But Equal Policies. This Policy Required Black Students To Accept One Of Three Options Attend Morgan College The Princess Anne Academy Or Out-Of-State Black Institutions. In 1935 Thurgood Marshall Argued The Case For Murray Showing That Neither Of The In-State Institutions Offered A Law School And That Such Schools Were Entirely Unequal To The University Of Maryland. Marshall And Houston Expected To Lose And Intended To Appeal To The Federal Courts. However The Maryland Court Of Appeals Ruled Against The State Of Maryland And Its Attorney General Who Represented The University Of Maryland Stating "Compliance With The Constitution Cannot Be Deferred At The Will Of The State. Whatever System Is Adopted For Legal Education Now Must Furnish Equality Of Treatment Now". While It Was A Moral Victory The Ruling Had No Real Authority Outside The State Of Maryland.
George E.C. Hayes Thurgood Marshall And James Nabrit Congratulating Each Other Following Supreme Court Decision Declaring Segregation In Public Education Unconstitutional
George E.C. Hayes Thurgood Marshall And James Nabrit Congratulating Each Other Following Supreme Court Decision Declaring Segregation In Public Education Unconstitutional Chief Counsel For The NAACP Marshall Won His Very First U.S. Supreme Court Case Chambers V. Florida 309 U.S. 227 1940 . At The Age Of 32 That Same Year He Was Appointed Chief Counsel For The NAACP. He Argued Many Other Cases Before The Supreme Court Most Of Them Successfully Including Smith V. Allwright 321 U.S. 649 1944 Shelley V. Kraemer 334 U.S. 1 1948 Sweatt V. Painter 339 U.S. 629 1950 And McLaurin V. Oklahoma State Regents 339 U.S. 637 1950 . His Most Famous Case As A Lawyer Was Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 1954 The Case In Which The Supreme Court Ruled That "separate But Equal" Public Education Was Unconstitutional Because It Could Never Be Truly Equal. In Total Marshall Won 29 Out Of The 32 Cases He Argued Before The Supreme Court. During The 1950s Thurgood Marshall Developed A Friendly Relationship With J. Edgar Hoover The Director The Federal Bureau Of Investigation. In 1956 For Example He Privately Praised Hoover's Campaign To Discredit T.R.M. Howard A Maverick Civil Rights Leader From Mississippi. During A National Speaking Tour Howard Had Criticized The FBI's Failure To Seriously Investigate Cases Such As The 1955 Murders Of George W. Lee And Emmett Till. Ironically Two Years Earlier Howard Had Arranged For Marshall To Deliver A Well-Received Speech At A Rally Of His Regional Council Of Negro Leadership In Mound Bayou Mississippi Only Days Before The Brown Decision. President John F. Kennedy Appointed Marshall To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit In 1961. A Group Of Democratic Party Senators Led By Mississippi's James Eastland Held Up His Confirmation So He Served For The First Several Months Under A Recess Appointment. Marshall Remained On That Court Until 1965 When President Lyndon B. Johnson Appointed Him Solicitor General. U.S. Supreme Court On June 13 1967 President Johnson Appointed Marshall To The Supreme Court Following The Retirement Of Justice Tom C. Clark Saying That This Was "the Right Thing To Do The Right Time To Do It The Right Man And The Right Place." He Was The 96th Person To Hold The Position And The First African-American. President Johnson Confidently Predicted To One Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin That A Lot Of Black Baby Boys Would Be Named "Thurgood" In Honor Of This Choice In Fact Kearns's Research Of Birth Records In New York And Boston Indicates That Johnson's Prophecy Did Not Come True . 4 Marshall Served On The Court For The Next Twenty-Four Years Compiling A Liberal Record That Included Strong Support For Constitutional Protection Of Individual Rights Especially The Rights Of Criminal Suspects Against The Government. His Most Frequent Ally On The Court Indeed The Pair Rarely Voted At Odds Was Justice William Brennan Who Consistently Joined Him In Supporting Abortion Rights And Opposing The Death Penalty. Brennan And Marshall Concluded In Furman V. Georgia That The Death Penalty Was In All Circumstances Unconstitutional And Never Accepted The Legitimacy Of Gregg V. Georgia Which Ruled Four Years Later That The Death Penalty Was Constitutional In Some Circumstances. Thereafter Brennan Or Marshall Dissented From Every Denial Of Certiorari In A Capital Case And From Every Decision Upholding A Sentence Of Death. Citation Needed Although He Is Best Remembered For His Jurisprudence In The Fields Of Civil Rights And Criminal Procedure Marshall Made Significant Contributions To Other Areas Of The Law As Well. In Teamsters V. Terry He Held That The Seventh Amendment Entitled The Plaintiff To A Jury Trial In A Suit Against A Labor Union For Breach Of Duty Of Fair Representation. In TSC Industries Inc. V. Northway Inc. He Articulated A Formulation For The Standard Of Materiality In United States Securities Law That Is Still Applied And Used Today. In Cottage Savings Association V. Commissioner Of Internal Revenue He Weighed In On The Income Tax Consequences Of The Savings And Loan Crisis Permitting A Savings And Loan Association To Deduct A Loss From An Exchange Of Mortgage Participation Interests. Among His Many Law Clerks Were Chief Judge Douglas Ginsburg Of The D.C. Circuit Court Of Appeals Well-Known Law Professors Cass Sunstein Eben Moglen Susan Low Bloch And Mark Tushnet Dean Richard Revesz Of New York University School Of Law And Dean Elena Kagan Of Harvard Law School. Death Marshall Died Of Heart Failure At The Age Of 84. He Died At The National Naval Medical Center In Bethesda Maryland At 2 58 P.M. On January 24 1993. He Was Buried In Arlington National Cemetery. His Second Wife And Their Two Sons Survived Him. Marshall Left All Of His Personal Papers And Notes To The Library Of Congress. The Librarian Of Congress Opened Marshall's Papers For Immediate Use By Scholars Journalists And The Public Insisting That This Was Marshall's Intent. The Marshall Family And Several Of His Close Associates Disputed This Claim. 5 There Are Numerous Memorials To Justice Marshall. One Is Near The Maryland State House. The Primary Office Building For The Federal Court System Located On Capitol Hill In Washington D.C. Is Named In Honor Of Justice Marshall And Contains A Statue Of Him In The Atrium. The Major Airport Serving Baltimore And The Maryland Suburbs Of Washington DC Was Renamed The Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport On October 1 2005. Timeline Of Marshall's Life Marshall In 1957 1930 - Thurgood Graduates With Honors From Lincoln University PA Cum Laude . 1934 - Thurgood Receives Law Degree From Howard University Magna Cum Laude Begins Private Practice In Baltimore Maryland. 1934 - Begins To Work For Baltimore Branch Of NAACP. 1935 - Worked With Charles Houston Wins First Major Civil Rights Case Murray V. Pearson. 1936 - Becomes Assistant Special Counsel For NAACP In New York. 1940 - Wins Chambers V. Florida The First Of Twenty-Nine Supreme Court Victories. 1943 - Won Case For Integration Of Schools In Hillburn New York. 1944 - Successfully Argues Smith V. Allwright Overthrowing The South's "white Primary". 1946 -Thurgood Marshall Received A Medal From The NAACP. 1948 - Wins Shelley V. Kraemer In Which Supreme Court Strikes Down Legality Of Racially Restrictive Covenants. 1950 - Wins Supreme Court Victories In Two Graduate-School Integration Cases Sweatt V. Painter And McLaurin V. Oklahoma State Regents. 1951 - Visits South Korea And Japan To Investigate Charges Of Racism In U.S. Armed Forces. He Reported That The General Practice Was One Of "rigid Segregation." 1954 - Wins Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka Landmark Case That Demolishes Legal Basis For Segregation In America. 1956 - Wins Browder V. Gayle Ending The Practice Of Segregation On Buses And Ending The Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1961 - Defends Civil Rights Demonstrators Winning Supreme Court Victory In Garner V. Louisiana Nominated To Second Circuit Court Of Appeals By President J.F. Kennedy. 1961 - Appointed Circuit Judge Makes 112 Rulings None Of Them Reversed On Certiorari By Supreme Court 1961-1965 . 1965 - Appointed United States Solicitor General By President Lyndon B. Johnson Wins 14 Of The 19 Cases He Argues For The Government 1965-1967 . 1967 - Becomes First African American Elevated To U.S. Supreme Court 1967-1991 . 1991 - Retires From The Supreme Court. 1992 - Receives The Liberty Medal Recognizing Marshall's Long History Of Protecting Individual Rights Under The Constitution. 1993 - Dies At Age 84 In Bethesda Maryland Near Washington D.C. For More See Bradley C. S. Watson "The Jurisprudence Of William Joseph Brennan Jr. And Thurgood Marshall" In History Of American Political Thought. References * Juan Williams Thurgood Marshall American Revolutionary 1998 Book . Promotional Site For Book * David T. Beito And Linda Royster Beito T.R.M. Howard Pragmatism Over Strict Integrationist Ideology In The Mississippi Delta 1942-1954 In Glenn Feldman Ed. Before Brown Civil Rights And White Backlash In The Modern South 2004 Book 68-95.
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Thurgood Marshall July 2 1908 – January 24 1993 Was An American Jurist And The First African American To Serve On The Supreme Court Of The United States. Before Becoming A Judge He Was A Lawyer Who Was Best Remembered For His High Success Rate In Arguing Before The Supreme Court And For The Victory In Brown V. Board Of Education. Marshall Was Born In Baltimore Maryland On July 2 1908. His Original Name Was Thoroughgood But He Shortened It To Thurgood In Second Grade. His Father William Marshall Instilled In Him An Appreciation For The Constitution Of The United States And The Rule Of Law. 1 Additionally As A Child He Was Punished For His School Misbehavior By Being Forced To Read The Constitution Which He Later Said Piqued His Interest In The Document. Marshall Was A Descendant Of Slaves. 2 Marshall Was Married Twice To Vivian "Buster" Burey From 1929 Until Her Death In February 1955 And To Cecilia Suyat From December 1955 Until His Own Death In 1993. He Had Two Sons From His Second Marriage 3 Thurgood Marshall Jr. Who Is A Former Top Aide To President Bill Clinton And John W. Marshall Who Is A Former United States Marshals Service Director And Since 2002 Has Served As Virginia Secretary Of Public Safety Under Governors Mark Warner And Tim Kaine. Education Marshall Graduated From Lincoln University In Pennsylvania In 1930. Afterward Marshall Wanted To Apply To His Hometown Law School The University Of Maryland School Of Law But The Dean Told Him That He Would Not Be Accepted Due To The School's Segregation Policy. Later As A Civil Rights Litigator He Successfully Sued The School For This Policy In The Case Of Murray V. Pearson. Instead Marshall Sought Admission And Was Accepted At Howard University. He Was Influenced By Its New Dean Charles Hamilton Houston Who Instilled In His Students The Desire To Apply The Tenets Of The Constitution To All Americans. Marshall Was A Member Of Alpha Phi Alpha The First Intercollegiate Black Greek-Letter Fraternity Established By African American Students In 1906. Law Career Main Article Murray V. Pearson Marshall Received His Law Degree From Howard In 1933 And Set Up A Private Practice In Baltimore. The Following Year He Began Working With The Baltimore NAACP. He Won His First Major Civil Rights Case Murray V. Pearson 169 Md. 478 1936 . This Involved The First Attempt To Chip Away At Plessy V. Ferguson A Plan Created By His Co-Counsel On The Case Charles Hamilton Houston. Marshall Represented Donald Gaines Murray A Black Amherst College Graduate With Excellent Credentials Who Had Been Denied Admission To The University Of Maryland Law School Because Of Its Separate But Equal Policies. This Policy Required Black Students To Accept One Of Three Options Attend Morgan College The Princess Anne Academy Or Out-Of-State Black Institutions. In 1935 Thurgood Marshall Argued The Case For Murray Showing That Neither Of The In-State Institutions Offered A Law School And That Such Schools Were Entirely Unequal To The University Of Maryland. Marshall And Houston Expected To Lose And Intended To Appeal To The Federal Courts. However The Maryland Court Of Appeals Ruled Against The State Of Maryland And Its Attorney General Who Represented The University Of Maryland Stating "Compliance With The Constitution Cannot Be Deferred At The Will Of The State. Whatever System Is Adopted For Legal Education Now Must Furnish Equality Of Treatment Now". While It Was A Moral Victory The Ruling Had No Real Authority Outside The State Of Maryland.
George E.C. Hayes Thurgood Marshall And James Nabrit Congratulating Each Other Following Supreme Court Decision Declaring Segregation In Public Education Unconstitutional
George E.C. Hayes Thurgood Marshall And James Nabrit Congratulating Each Other Following Supreme Court Decision Declaring Segregation In Public Education Unconstitutional Chief Counsel For The NAACP Marshall Won His Very First U.S. Supreme Court Case Chambers V. Florida 309 U.S. 227 1940 . At The Age Of 32 That Same Year He Was Appointed Chief Counsel For The NAACP. He Argued Many Other Cases Before The Supreme Court Most Of Them Successfully Including Smith V. Allwright 321 U.S. 649 1944 Shelley V. Kraemer 334 U.S. 1 1948 Sweatt V. Painter 339 U.S. 629 1950 And McLaurin V. Oklahoma State Regents 339 U.S. 637 1950 . His Most Famous Case As A Lawyer Was Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 1954 The Case In Which The Supreme Court Ruled That "separate But Equal" Public Education Was Unconstitutional Because It Could Never Be Truly Equal. In Total Marshall Won 29 Out Of The 32 Cases He Argued Before The Supreme Court. During The 1950s Thurgood Marshall Developed A Friendly Relationship With J. Edgar Hoover The Director The Federal Bureau Of Investigation. In 1956 For Example He Privately Praised Hoover's Campaign To Discredit T.R.M. Howard A Maverick Civil Rights Leader From Mississippi. During A National Speaking Tour Howard Had Criticized The FBI's Failure To Seriously Investigate Cases Such As The 1955 Murders Of George W. Lee And Emmett Till. Ironically Two Years Earlier Howard Had Arranged For Marshall To Deliver A Well-Received Speech At A Rally Of His Regional Council Of Negro Leadership In Mound Bayou Mississippi Only Days Before The Brown Decision. President John F. Kennedy Appointed Marshall To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit In 1961. A Group Of Democratic Party Senators Led By Mississippi's James Eastland Held Up His Confirmation So He Served For The First Several Months Under A Recess Appointment. Marshall Remained On That Court Until 1965 When President Lyndon B. Johnson Appointed Him Solicitor General. U.S. Supreme Court On June 13 1967 President Johnson Appointed Marshall To The Supreme Court Following The Retirement Of Justice Tom C. Clark Saying That This Was "the Right Thing To Do The Right Time To Do It The Right Man And The Right Place." He Was The 96th Person To Hold The Position And The First African-American. President Johnson Confidently Predicted To One Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin That A Lot Of Black Baby Boys Would Be Named "Thurgood" In Honor Of This Choice In Fact Kearns's Research Of Birth Records In New York And Boston Indicates That Johnson's Prophecy Did Not Come True . 4 Marshall Served On The Court For The Next Twenty-Four Years Compiling A Liberal Record That Included Strong Support For Constitutional Protection Of Individual Rights Especially The Rights Of Criminal Suspects Against The Government. His Most Frequent Ally On The Court Indeed The Pair Rarely Voted At Odds Was Justice William Brennan Who Consistently Joined Him In Supporting Abortion Rights And Opposing The Death Penalty. Brennan And Marshall Concluded In Furman V. Georgia That The Death Penalty Was In All Circumstances Unconstitutional And Never Accepted The Legitimacy Of Gregg V. Georgia Which Ruled Four Years Later That The Death Penalty Was Constitutional In Some Circumstances. Thereafter Brennan Or Marshall Dissented From Every Denial Of Certiorari In A Capital Case And From Every Decision Upholding A Sentence Of Death. Citation Needed Although He Is Best Remembered For His Jurisprudence In The Fields Of Civil Rights And Criminal Procedure Marshall Made Significant Contributions To Other Areas Of The Law As Well. In Teamsters V. Terry He Held That The Seventh Amendment Entitled The Plaintiff To A Jury Trial In A Suit Against A Labor Union For Breach Of Duty Of Fair Representation. In TSC Industries Inc. V. Northway Inc. He Articulated A Formulation For The Standard Of Materiality In United States Securities Law That Is Still Applied And Used Today. In Cottage Savings Association V. Commissioner Of Internal Revenue He Weighed In On The Income Tax Consequences Of The Savings And Loan Crisis Permitting A Savings And Loan Association To Deduct A Loss From An Exchange Of Mortgage Participation Interests. Among His Many Law Clerks Were Chief Judge Douglas Ginsburg Of The D.C. Circuit Court Of Appeals Well-Known Law Professors Cass Sunstein Eben Moglen Susan Low Bloch And Mark Tushnet Dean Richard Revesz Of New York University School Of Law And Dean Elena Kagan Of Harvard Law School. Death Marshall Died Of Heart Failure At The Age Of 84. He Died At The National Naval Medical Center In Bethesda Maryland At 2 58 P.M. On January 24 1993. He Was Buried In Arlington National Cemetery. His Second Wife And Their Two Sons Survived Him. Marshall Left All Of His Personal Papers And Notes To The Library Of Congress. The Librarian Of Congress Opened Marshall's Papers For Immediate Use By Scholars Journalists And The Public Insisting That This Was Marshall's Intent. The Marshall Family And Several Of His Close Associates Disputed This Claim. 5 There Are Numerous Memorials To Justice Marshall. One Is Near The Maryland State House. The Primary Office Building For The Federal Court System Located On Capitol Hill In Washington D.C. Is Named In Honor Of Justice Marshall And Contains A Statue Of Him In The Atrium. The Major Airport Serving Baltimore And The Maryland Suburbs Of Washington DC Was Renamed The Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport On October 1 2005. Timeline Of Marshall's Life Marshall In 1957 1930 - Thurgood Graduates With Honors From Lincoln University PA Cum Laude . 1934 - Thurgood Receives Law Degree From Howard University Magna Cum Laude Begins Private Practice In Baltimore Maryland. 1934 - Begins To Work For Baltimore Branch Of NAACP. 1935 - Worked With Charles Houston Wins First Major Civil Rights Case Murray V. Pearson. 1936 - Becomes Assistant Special Counsel For NAACP In New York. 1940 - Wins Chambers V. Florida The First Of Twenty-Nine Supreme Court Victories. 1943 - Won Case For Integration Of Schools In Hillburn New York. 1944 - Successfully Argues Smith V. Allwright Overthrowing The South's "white Primary". 1946 -Thurgood Marshall Received A Medal From The NAACP. 1948 - Wins Shelley V. Kraemer In Which Supreme Court Strikes Down Legality Of Racially Restrictive Covenants. 1950 - Wins Supreme Court Victories In Two Graduate-School Integration Cases Sweatt V. Painter And McLaurin V. Oklahoma State Regents. 1951 - Visits South Korea And Japan To Investigate Charges Of Racism In U.S. Armed Forces. He Reported That The General Practice Was One Of "rigid Segregation." 1954 - Wins Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka Landmark Case That Demolishes Legal Basis For Segregation In America. 1956 - Wins Browder V. Gayle Ending The Practice Of Segregation On Buses And Ending The Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1961 - Defends Civil Rights Demonstrators Winning Supreme Court Victory In Garner V. Louisiana Nominated To Second Circuit Court Of Appeals By President J.F. Kennedy. 1961 - Appointed Circuit Judge Makes 112 Rulings None Of Them Reversed On Certiorari By Supreme Court 1961-1965 . 1965 - Appointed United States Solicitor General By President Lyndon B. Johnson Wins 14 Of The 19 Cases He Argues For The Government 1965-1967 . 1967 - Becomes First African American Elevated To U.S. Supreme Court 1967-1991 . 1991 - Retires From The Supreme Court. 1992 - Receives The Liberty Medal Recognizing Marshall's Long History Of Protecting Individual Rights Under The Constitution. 1993 - Dies At Age 84 In Bethesda Maryland Near Washington D.C. For More See Bradley C. S. Watson "The Jurisprudence Of William Joseph Brennan Jr. And Thurgood Marshall" In History Of American Political Thought. References * Juan Williams Thurgood Marshall American Revolutionary 1998 Book . Promotional Site For Book * David T. Beito And Linda Royster Beito T.R.M. Howard Pragmatism Over Strict Integrationist Ideology In The Mississippi Delta 1942-1954 In Glenn Feldman Ed. Before Brown Civil Rights And White Backlash In The Modern South 2004 Book 68-95. read less
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George E.C. Hayes Thurgood Marshall And James Nabrit Congratulating Each Other Following Supreme Court Decision Declaring Segregation In Public Education Unconstitutional
George E.C. Hayes Thurgood Marshall And James Nabrit Congratulating Each Other Following Supreme Court Decision Declaring Segregation In Public Education Unconstitutional Chief Counsel For The NAACP Marshall Won His Very First U.S. Supreme Court Case Chambers V. Florida 309 U.S. 227 1940 . At The Age Of 32 That Same Year He Was Appointed Chief Counsel For The NAACP. He Argued Many Other Cases Before The Supreme Court Most Of Them Successfully Including Smith V. Allwright 321 U.S. 649 1944 Shelley V. Kraemer 334 U.S. 1 1948 Sweatt V. Painter 339 U.S. 629 1950 And McLaurin V. Oklahoma State Regents 339 U.S. 637 1950 . His Most Famous Case As A Lawyer Was Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 1954 The Case In Which The Supreme Court Ruled That "separate But Equal" Public Education Was Unconstitutional Because It Could Never Be Truly Equal. In Total Marshall Won 29 Out Of The 32 Cases He Argued Before The Supreme Court. During The 1950s Thurgood Marshall Developed A Friendly Relationship With J. Edgar Hoover The Director The Federal Bureau Of Investigation. In 1956 For Example He Privately Praised Hoover's Campaign To Discredit T.R.M. Howard A Maverick Civil Rights Leader From Mississippi. During A National Speaking Tour Howard Had Criticized The FBI's Failure To Seriously Investigate Cases Such As The 1955 Murders Of George W. Lee And Emmett Till. Ironically Two Years Earlier Howard Had Arranged For Marshall To Deliver A Well-Received Speech At A Rally Of His Regional Council Of Negro Leadership In Mound Bayou Mississippi Only Days Before The Brown Decision. President John F. Kennedy Appointed Marshall To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit In 1961. A Group Of Democratic Party Senators Led By Mississippi's James Eastland Held Up His Confirmation So He Served For The First Several Months Under A Recess Appointment. Marshall Remained On That Court Until 1965 When President Lyndon B. Johnson Appointed Him Solicitor General. U.S. Supreme Court On June 13 1967 President Johnson Appointed Marshall To The Supreme Court Following The Retirement Of Justice Tom C. Clark Saying That This Was "the Right Thing To Do The Right Time To Do It The Right Man And The Right Place." He Was The 96th Person To Hold The Position And The First African-American. President Johnson Confidently Predicted To One Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin That A Lot Of Black Baby Boys Would Be Named "Thurgood" In Honor Of This Choice In Fact Kearns's Research Of Birth Records In New York And Boston Indicates That Johnson's Prophecy Did Not Come True . 4 Marshall Served On The Court For The Next Twenty-Four Years Compiling A Liberal Record That Included Strong Support For Constitutional Protection Of Individual Rights Especially The Rights Of Criminal Suspects Against The Government. His Most Frequent Ally On The Court Indeed The Pair Rarely Voted At Odds Was Justice William Brennan Who Consistently Joined Him In Supporting Abortion Rights And Opposing The Death Penalty. Brennan And Marshall Concluded In Furman V. Georgia That The Death Penalty Was In All Circumstances Unconstitutional And Never Accepted The Legitimacy Of Gregg V. Georgia Which Ruled Four Years Later That The Death Penalty Was Constitutional In Some Circumstances. Thereafter Brennan Or Marshall Dissented From Every Denial Of Certiorari In A Capital Case And From Every Decision Upholding A Sentence Of Death. Citation Needed Although He Is Best Remembered For His Jurisprudence In The Fields Of Civil Rights And Criminal Procedure Marshall Made Significant Contributions To Other Areas Of The Law As Well. In Teamsters V. Terry He Held That The Seventh Amendment Entitled The Plaintiff To A Jury Trial In A Suit Against A Labor Union For Breach Of Duty Of Fair Representation. In TSC Industries Inc. V. Northway Inc. He Articulated A Formulation For The Standard Of Materiality In United States Securities Law That Is Still Applied And Used Today. In Cottage Savings Association V. Commissioner Of Internal Revenue He Weighed In On The Income Tax Consequences Of The Savings And Loan Crisis Permitting A Savings And Loan Association To Deduct A Loss From An Exchange Of Mortgage Participation Interests. Among His Many Law Clerks Were Chief Judge Douglas Ginsburg Of The D.C. Circuit Court Of Appeals Well-Known Law Professors Cass Sunstein Eben Moglen Susan Low Bloch And Mark Tushnet Dean Richard Revesz Of New York University School Of Law And Dean Elena Kagan Of Harvard Law School. Death Marshall Died Of Heart Failure At The Age Of 84. He Died At The National Naval Medical Center In Bethesda Maryland At 2 58 P.M. On January 24 1993. He Was Buried In Arlington National Cemetery. His Second Wife And Their Two Sons Survived Him. Marshall Left All Of His Personal Papers And Notes To The Library Of Congress. The Librarian Of Congress Opened Marshall's Papers For Immediate Use By Scholars Journalists And The Public Insisting That This Was Marshall's Intent. The Marshall Family And Several Of His Close Associates Disputed This Claim. 5 There Are Numerous Memorials To Justice Marshall. One Is Near The Maryland State House. The Primary Office Building For The Federal Court System Located On Capitol Hill In Washington D.C. Is Named In Honor Of Justice Marshall And Contains A Statue Of Him In The Atrium. The Major Airport Serving Baltimore And The Maryland Suburbs Of Washington DC Was Renamed The Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport On October 1 2005. Timeline Of Marshall's Life Marshall In 1957 1930 - Thurgood Graduates With Honors From Lincoln University PA Cum Laude . 1934 - Thurgood Receives Law Degree From Howard University Magna Cum Laude Begins Private Practice In Baltimore Maryland. 1934 - Begins To Work For Baltimore Branch Of NAACP. 1935 - Worked With Charles Houston Wins First Major Civil Rights Case Murray V. Pearson. 1936 - Becomes Assistant Special Counsel For NAACP In New York. 1940 - Wins Chambers V. Florida The First Of Twenty-Nine Supreme Court Victories. 1943 - Won Case For Integration Of Schools In Hillburn New York. 1944 - Successfully Argues Smith V. Allwright Overthrowing The South's "white Primary". 1946 -Thurgood Marshall Received A Medal From The NAACP. 1948 - Wins Shelley V. Kraemer In Which Supreme Court Strikes Down Legality Of Racially Restrictive Covenants. 1950 - Wins Supreme Court Victories In Two Graduate-School Integration Cases Sweatt V. Painter And McLaurin V. Oklahoma State Regents. 1951 - Visits South Korea And Japan To Investigate Charges Of Racism In U.S. Armed Forces. He Reported That The General Practice Was One Of "rigid Segregation." 1954 - Wins Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka Landmark Case That Demolishes Legal Basis For Segregation In America. 1956 - Wins Browder V. Gayle Ending The Practice Of Segregation On Buses And Ending The Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1961 - Defends Civil Rights Demonstrators Winning Supreme Court Victory In Garner V. Louisiana Nominated To Second Circuit Court Of Appeals By President J.F. Kennedy. 1961 - Appointed Circuit Judge Makes 112 Rulings None Of Them Reversed On Certiorari By Supreme Court 1961-1965 . 1965 - Appointed United States Solicitor General By President Lyndon B. Johnson Wins 14 Of The 19 Cases He Argues For The Government 1965-1967 . 1967 - Becomes First African American Elevated To U.S. Supreme Court 1967-1991 . 1991 - Retires From The Supreme Court. 1992 - Receives The Liberty Medal Recognizing Marshall's Long History Of Protecting Individual Rights Under The Constitution. 1993 - Dies At Age 84 In Bethesda Maryland Near Washington D.C. For More See Bradley C. S. Watson "The Jurisprudence Of William Joseph Brennan Jr. And Thurgood Marshall" In History Of American Political Thought. References * Juan Williams Thurgood Marshall American Revolutionary 1998 Book . Promotional Site For Book * David T. Beito And Linda Royster Beito T.R.M. Howard Pragmatism Over Strict Integrationist Ideology In The Mississippi Delta 1942-1954 In Glenn Feldman Ed. Before Brown Civil Rights And White Backlash In The Modern South 2004 Book 68-95. read less
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