July 2nd is Thurgood Marshall Day!!! "Thurgood Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, and served for 24 years. He died in Maryland on January 24, 1993."
I really think Mr. Marshall was an absolutely amazing man - one in very few that actually use their knowledge of the law and legal system to do something good and positive! More people coming up within the system should look up to him and want to be like him. We need more people like him in the world, people that will stand-up for what is right, not just what is convenient and what they can manipulate the law to be.Thank you Mr. Marshall for all of your contributions and inspiration! Please click the link below and learn more about Thurgood Marshall.
http://www.biography.com/people/thurgood-marshall-9400241
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots." - Thurgood Marshall
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