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Malcolm

Some of the most vocal critics of Marshall were black militants, particularly the nation of Islam and its charismatic Harlem leader, Malcolm X. The Black Muslims preached racial separation –…

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Martin

Marshall won several major Supreme Court cases outlawing segregation in housing, transportation, and in 1954 won Brown v Board of Education, desegregating public schools. However, frustrated by the foot-dragging and…

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Hoover

Beginning in the 1940s, Marshall battled with federal law enforcement officials for failing to protect the civil rights of black Americans in the South. Initially, Marshall and FBI director, J.…

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Early Life

After graduating Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall went to all male Lincoln University in Oxford, PA. Among his many fellow classmates was the already renowned poet, Langston…

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Early Naacp

In 1936, Marshall moved to New York to work at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  The civil rights groups had recently begun to operate a…

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NAACP Strategy Session

22 May 1954, Atlanta, Georgia, USA — Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 17 states meet in Atlanta, May 22nd, 1954, to plan a…