| A Timeline Of His Life |
| Thurgood Marshall was Born Married his first wife Vivian Burey He graduates from Lincoln University Thurgood recieved a law degree from Howard University and starts private practice of the law in Baltimore. He begins working for the Baltimore branch of NAACP Marshall and Charles Houston win the first major Civil Rights case He becomes the assistant special council in NY for the NAACP Won 29 Supreme Court cases He wins Smith vs. Allwright, which resulted in the overthowing of the South's "white primary" Recieved a Spingarn Medal from the NAACP He won the Shelley vs. Kraemer case, where the Supreme court strikes down legality of racially restrictive covenants Wins Sweatt vs. Painter and McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents, two graduate-school integration cases Thurgood goes to South Korea and Japan to investigate charges of racisim in U.S. armed forces. Won Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, one of the most well known cases he took. Marries sencond wife, Cecilia Suyat President John F. Kennedy nominated Marshall to the Second Court of Appeals, defends Civil Rights demonstrators, won Garner vs. Louisiana, appointed cicuit judge, and made 112 rulings He argued 19 cases and won 14 of them and President Lyndon Johnson appointed him as the U.S. solicitor general He became the first black that was elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court Retires from the Supreme Court He became the first recipiant of the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award for outstanding work Marshall dies at the age of 84 on January 24th because of heart failure |
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