Thurgood became so intrigue with Huston, that he started to accept Huston's ideas. Thurgood grades were so good that he was the top student in his class. A turning point in Thurgood's life occurred during his last year in law school. Thurgood and some of his classmates started to review the Washington D. C. Code for fun. Thurgood discovered how Afro Americans were prohibited from voting. Thurgood became so uneven that he vowed to do his best to end segregation. After graduation (1933), Thurgood assisted Huston in the George Crawford case. George Crawford an Afro American man charge with murdering a white man in Loudon County, Virginia. Thurgood and Huston fought hard for George, but the jury found him guilty and gave him life in prison. Thurgood and Huston were happy because they saved an Afro American from death. Huston and Thurgood departed their ways. Thurgood went on to Baltimore to open a law firm and Huston went on to New York to run The NACCP legal defense. Thurgood with his legal knowledge was taking on all sorts of cases to help unfortunate people. Thurgood was taking cases for free just to help his people. Thurgood still wanted to fight racial segregation, but couldn't find time to pursue it. By 1934 Thurgood was winning a lot of civil rights cases and people from all over was asking about Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood join the NAACP, in 1934 as an assistant special counsel. The NAACP couldn't pay Thurgood so he worked for free. Thurgood developed a strategy to fight racial segregation throughout the United States. Thurgood would use The Constitution as a bible and make sure every state and federal court would abide by its legal interpretations. Thurgood's first case was with a man name Lloyd Gains. Lloyd Gains tried to enroll at the University of Missouri .The University of Missouri wouldn't allowed Gains to enroll because of the color of his skin. Thurgood filled a lawsuit against The University of Missouri.