The book I read was called Dreammakers, Dream Breakers. Written by Carl T. Bowan, this autobiography showed more insight to the life of Marshall than anything else that I ever seen. Through out the twenty-four chapters, Bowan covered Marshall’s life from childhood to his passing day. With this review I would like to show what I have learned and gained from this excersise and show how much Marshall had to do with the changes in procedures of criminal law, civil rights, and politics in general.

The year before Thurgood was born, the Saturday Evening Post had this quote from a Mississippi Governor, James K. Vardaman on the American Negro:

When Thurgood started school no one really expected that much from him. He was rambunctious, silly and mischievous. One of his uncles even called him a bum. In highschool he would get in trouble so much they didn’t quite know what to do with him. He was too big to corporally punish, so the principle would force him to read the constitution and memorize it. That probably made for the beginning of a great leader. Thurgood eventually went to Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He couldn’t attend the University of Maryland because it was a white school and blacks were not admitted. But even at Lincoln, Marshall slacked off a lot in his studies, and focused more on fun. He was suspended from school more times he could count. He was popular and a member of the first Black Greek Fraternal Organization, Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. This just happens to be the brother to my sorority, the first Black Greek Sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. He got drunk a lot and viciously participated in hazing. He married Vivien Urley his senior year and, suprisingly, graduated with Honors, Cum Laude. At the point of graduation He had been comtiplating becoming a dentist, but flunking a hygiene class for insulting the professor changed his mind. He then focused on Law.

When Thurgood started school no one really expected that much from him. He was rambunctious, silly and mischievous. One of his uncles even called him a bum. In highschool he would get in trouble so much they didn’t quite know what to do with him. He was too big to corporally punish, so the principle would force him to read the constitution and memorize it. That probably made for the beginning of a great leader. Thurgood eventually went to Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He couldn’t attend the University of Maryland because it was a white school and blacks were not admitted. But even at Lincoln, Marshall slacked off a lot in his studies, and focused more on fun. He was suspended from school more times he could count. He was popular and a member of the first Black Greek Fraternal Organization, Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. This just happens to be the brother to my sorority, the first Black Greek Sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. He got drunk a lot and viciously participated in hazing. He married Vivien Urley his senior year and, suprisingly, graduated with Honors, Cum Laude. At the point of graduation He had been comtiplating becoming a dentist, but flunking a hygiene class for insulting the professor changed his mind. He then focused on Law.

-Manhood suffrage [note, no “womanhood”]

Thurgood… Thurgood Marshall, Mr. Civil Rights.

Fought fo the teachers, fought for the schools

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