Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993

By:LaKedric Carter Wash

Thurgood Marshall was the first black person to become a judge on the Supreme Court. His famous words were, "Equal means getting the same thing at the same time and at the same place." He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He worked with the NAACP as a lawyer trying to get integration into segregated public schools. Segregated public schools are schools that do not have black people in them.

He worked on the case of Brown vs. Board of Education. This was a case about integration in public schools. His work on this case helped put black people into public schools.

Brown vs Board of Education

In 1954, the case of Brown vs Board of Education said that black people could go to segregated public schools. Linda Brown's parents and others went to the NAACP and asked for help so she and other black children could go to the segregated schools. The NAACP decided that Brown was right and that Marshall should work on the case. Marshall said in court, "Equal means getting the same thing at the same time and at the same place." The Supreme Cort said that black people could go to public schools. As time passed Brown, Marshall, and many others won integrated public schools.