We're continuing Black History Month with the story of a powerful Baltimore lawyer who helped pave the way to desegregating public schools. Thurgood Marshall was an extremely talented lawyer who helped ensure the Civil Rights Movement had stable ground to move on. He fought relentlessly for equal rights in ways you may not expect! 

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Sources: 

“Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP” PBS Documentary (2014)

“History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment”

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/educational-activities/brown-v-board-education-re-enactment/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment

“How Thurgood Marshall helped bring justice to a Tennessee town and was nearly jailed” by Jessica Bliss (Oct 13 2017)

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2017/10/13/how-thurgood-marshall-helped-bring-justice-tennessee-town/762624001/

“Columbia Race Riot, 1946” by Carroll Van West (Oct 8 2017)

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/columbia-race-riot-1946/

“Thurgood Marshall” (updated Jan 11 2021)

https://www.biography.com/legal-figures/thurgood-marshall

“About Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)”

https://marshall.ucsd.edu/about-us/about-our-namesake.html

“Thurgood Marshall”

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/thurgood-marshall

“Justice Thurgood Marshall”

https://www.tmcf.org/about-us/who-we-are/justice-thurgood-marshall/

https://vault.fbi.gov/Thurgood%20Marshall

“Justice Thurgood Marshall Profile - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment” 

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/educational-activities/brown-v-board-education-re-enactment/justice-thurgood-marshall-profile-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment

“Thurgood Marshall”

https://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall

“Thurgood Marshall” 

https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/history/thurgood-marshall/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall_(disambiguation)

“Brown v Board of Education (1954)” 

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education#:~:text=On%20May%2017%2C%201954%2C%20U.S.,amendment%20and%20was%20therefore%20unconstitutional. 

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